Machines

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.