Food

Food is a 1992 Czech animated short film directed by Jan Švankmajer that uses claymation and pixilation. It examines the human relationship with food by showing breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Plot Breakfast A man (Bedrich Glaser) enters a room, sits down at a table, and brushes a collection of leftovers onto the floor. Across from him sits another man with a placard attached to a chain hanging around his neck. The diner stands up and reads the placard one line at a time, following the instructions to get his food. He pinches the man's nose shut to get him to open his mouth, puts his money on the man's tongue, smacks him in the forehead to let the money enter his body, and pokes him in the eye to get his food. The man's shirt unbuttons itself, and the astonished diner watches as a dumbwaiter rises up to where the man's chest should be. The diner takes his food, and punches the man in the chin for his utensils. When he finishes eating, he kicks the man's shin for a napkin. After wiping his mouth, the diner convulses and goes limp. The man with the placard then comes to life, stretches, and places the placard on the former diner. He stands and puts another tally mark on the wall before he leaves. Another diner soon enters the room and reads the placard all at once, proceeding to repeat the scenario. After the second diner also convulses and goes limp, the original diner stands, stretches, and places the placard around the second diner's neck, adding another tally mark to the wall before he leaves. As the diner leaves, a line of people is seen stretching down the hall and around the corner. Lunch Two diners in a restaurant, a well-mannered businessman and a slovenly vagabond, are continuously unable to get their waiter's attention. As a means of remedying their situation, they proceed to eat everything in sight: the flowers, their napkins, their shoes, belts, pants, jackets, shirts, underwear, plates, tablecloth, table, and chairs, leaving both of them nude and seated on the floor. While this is happening, the vagabond watches the businessman, then eats what he eats. They also try to get the waiter's attention whenever he passes by, to no avail. In the end, after everything else has been eaten, the businessman eats his utensils, prompting the vagabond to eat his. The businessman then smiles, pulls his utensils from his mouth, and advances on the vagabond, who recoils in horror.