Ludvik Šváb, Josef Fiala, Bedřich Glaser, Jan Kraus, Pavel Marek, Jaromír Kallista, Karel Hamr, Marie Zemanová, David Lhoták, Václav Livora

In a 2002 interview, Czech filmmaker Jan Svankmajer spoke about the persistent food theme in his films, stating "The ways people deal with food and eating can be quite good at reflecting our civilization". Food, one of several works he's made reflecting on the topic, is a fourteen-minute dialogue-free three-course meal that moves through breakfast, lunch, and dinner, with three different scenarios depicting increasing hunger (physical, social, and sexual) and decreasing civility. Breakfast features machine-like binging, lunch introduces restaurant patrons who, dismissed by their waiter, eat their highly valued table setting, and, finally, there's dinner, in which a gourmet establishment serves the most deplorable of meats: human.

(by Rebecca L. Epstein)