- dir. Rahul Jain
- year. 2017
- country. India
- run-time. 76 mins
- rating.
£6.00 (£4.50 conc.)
Film 8:00PM
As the Scalarama month of cinema continues we launch our new film club Moon Docs, screening extraordinary, creative work that expands the boundaries of documentary film, every new moon.
We start with Rahul Jain's 'Machines' (2017), winner of the World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Excellence in Cinematography at Sundance. Exploring the human cost of mass production in our globalised world, Machines takes the viewer on a journey deep into the bowels of a vast and disorientating structure: a textile factory in Gujarat, India. Day and night its engines run; men operate machinery and dye intricately patterned fabrics in dim rooms; young children hunt through waste and work without time to rest.
Since the 1960s India has seen unprecedented, unregulated industrialisation. Through powerful interviews and vivid images, this film foregrounds the stories of its workers. Evoking the unrelenting rhythm of factory life, it lays bare the exploitation and hardship at the heart of contemporary capitalism.
Before the film we will feature a selection of MoonDoc shorts from around the world, focusing on factories and the people who work within them.
“An all to rare combination of artistic vision and social conscience. ”
“★★★★★ - Astonishing. A dignifying hymn to the common worker”