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Food

1996 · 16 min Animation Comedy
7.8 / 10 · TMDB

Three brief, dialogue-free animated sketches sequentially dissect the daily rituals of sustenance. Breakfast, lunch, and dinner unfold not as mundane scenes but as absurd, near-mechanical performances. Human figures with simplified features demonstrate an obsessive, almost ritualistic fixation on the act of consumption. Each segment, employing minimalist graphics and exaggerated physics, lays bare the comical yet unsettling core of our most basic relationship with food, transforming the ordinary into a spectacle of the grotesque.

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Year 1996
Country Czechoslovakia, United Kingdom
Genre Animation, Comedy
Director Jan Švankmajer
Runtime 16 min.
Rating TMDB: 7.8/10 (125 votes)

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Piotr Dumala, in his signature plaster-scratching technique, crafts not mere sketches but philosophical parables about our biological programming. The humor stems from the recognizable absurdity, from the automated routines of daily life pushed to their logical extreme.

What lingers after the final bite is a quiet, persistent aftertaste of self-recognition—seeing ourselves in these caricatured figures makes it hard to take the next meal quite so seriously. — MovieFinder Editorial

Director: Jan Švankmajer

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