Director Rahul Jain presents an intimate portrayal of life and work in a gigantic textile factory in Gujarat, India. Since the 1960s, western India has undergone unprecedented, unregulated industrialisation, exemplified in its numerous textile factories. Machines examines only one of these factories, while at the same time representing the thousands of labourers working, living and suffering in an environment they can hardly escape from. With strong visual language, memorable images and carefully selected interviews with the workers themselves, Jain tells a story of inequality and oppression, humans and machines.
Mechanical spectacle and human pain make surprisingly complementary subjects in Rahul Jain’s composed, immersive Indian factory tour.
Publisher of Pat's Guide to Glasgow West End; the community guide to the West End of Glasgow. Fiction and non-fiction writer.
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