Toast

Toast

2006 · 47 min · ★ 5.0 · Drama

This video installation pays unnervingly close attention to domestic routine, portraying a young woman in the kitchen methodically preparing food. This quotidian ritual slowly comes to feel like a sort of obsessive sublimation of more obscure psychic energies.

Directed by Jessica Hausner · Written by Jessica Hausner

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