Name of the film Machines
Directed by Rahul Jain
Year 2017
CountryIndia
Duration71 mins
LanguageEnglish. Hindi
About the film
Moving through the corridors and bowels of an enormous and disorientating structure, the camera takes the viewer on a descent down to a dehumanized place of physical labor and intense hardship. This gigantic textile factory in Gujarat, India might just as well be the decorum for a 21st century Dante’s Inferno. In his thought-provoking yet intimate portrayal, Jain observes the life of the workers, the suffering and the environment they can hardly escape from..
Director Biography
Rahul Jain graduated with a Bachelor’s of Fine Arts in Film and Video from the California Institute of Arts and is presently pursuing a Writing M.A. In Aesthetics and Politics. Machines is his debut film. He won the Silver Gateway Award for the same at the Mumbai Film Festival.