Educational Film

An engineered family at dinner discussing the day’s experiments. Father discovered the pencil, mother got water to boil, son researched the human response to being pantsed, and daughter alone in the attic all day filling out grant applications still managed to think about where she came from, and thus uncovered the element of despair. The table was set in paper plates, plastic forks. Everyone was huddled close around the pressure cooker, and mother pulled out the gray piece of meat. Daughter began to sob; it looked like a heart of a man who drowned in salad dressing. After desert, mother sat down to practice her artificial flower arranging, and father took himself to the garage to sleep as usual in the running car. It was another he discovered: being punctual.