Machines
Streaming video - 2016
Marrying stunning visuals with social advocacy, Rahul Jain’s debut documentary takes audiences into the labyrinthine passages of an enormous textile factory in Gujarat, India. Jain’s camera wanders freely between pulsating machines and bubbling vats of dye to create a moving portrait of the human laborers who toil away there for 12 hours a day to eke out a meager living for their families back home. Interviews with these workers and the factory owners who employ them reveal the stark inequality and dangerous working conditions brought about by unregulated industrialization in the region. This political message is delivered amidst the unsettling beauty of the factory’s mechanical underworld and the colorful, billowing fabrics it produc...es. Nominated for the F:ACT Award at **CPH:DOX**. Winner of the Cinematography Award and nominated for the Grand Jury Prize in the World Cinema - Documentary competition at the **Sundance Film Festival**. *"A bracingly physical documentary about the true cost of cheap labor." - David Ehrlich, **indieWire***
- Subjects
- Genres
- Documentary films
- Published
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[San Francisco, California, USA] :
Kino Lorber
2016.
2019. - Language
- English
- Other Authors
- Online Access
- A Kanopy streaming video
Cover Image - Item Description
- Title from title frames.
Film
In Process Record. - Physical Description
- 1 online resource (streaming video file) (68 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
- Format
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Access
- AVAILABLE FOR USE ONLY BY IOWA CITY AND RESIDENTS OF THE CONTRACTING GOVERNMENTS OF JOHNSON COUNTY, UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS, HILLS, AND LONE TREE (IA).