This visually arresting doc-meets-installation-art-piece explores the tradition of a last meal for condemned prisoners that was originally done to protect a deceased person on the long journey to the afterlife. Yet now mostly devoid of meaning, the ritual continues on. The film is anchored by visits with former death-row chef Brian Price, the author of Meals to Die For, who, by virtue of residing in Texas, prepared more than 200 final meals. Stockholm-based designers Bigert and Bergstrom exhibit a lightness of touch, a historical curiosity and an endlessly inventive graphic sense that makes this something special. (PS)

Preceded by Ice Music (dir. Gregory Whitehead, audio, 2 min.) in which sounds get frozen into ice cubes, then are released upon melting. And The Holocaust Tourist (dir. Jes Benstock, 2004, 10 min.), a wry look at the tourism industry that's grown up in post-Schindler's List Poland.

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