BREAD AS SOCIAL SCULPTURE
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COMPANION
Did you know that the Arabic words for “bread” and “life” is the same – aysh. The Russian word for hospitality – khlyeb-sol – means bread and salt and it is still customary there to greet any visitors with a piece of bread and salt. The Latin roots for companion also leads
SENSIBLE PERSPECTIVES
Baking bread is a cross-cultural and ancient art that deserves to be celebrated and acknowledged as a universal art form. Good bread provides the needed glue between life and art, it creates social bonds and restores the loss of sensibility and meantime that is lacking in our efficient and homogenized world. By baking
ABOUT THE FILM ALCHEMY
Alchemy is a short film celebrating the poetics of bread. The film is a poetic evocation on the alchemy of bread and brings the act of baking the most basic of staples, into a high art form. Here nature and human culture collude. Hands pounding, mixing, kneading and stretching, reveal the choreographed rhythms