Excited to announce a new film that will be coming to UK cinemas in 2017, Machines. The film first premiered at IDFA and recently had its international premiere at Sundance Film Festival where it took home the World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Excellence in Cinematography.
Machines will be the opening night film of Frames of Representation on 21 April in London at the ICA.
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 mind-provoking yet intimate portrayal, director Rahul Jain observes the life of the workers, the suffering and the environment they can hardly escape from. With strong visual language, memorable images and carefully selected interviews of the workers themselves, Jain tells a story of inequality, oppression and the huge divide between rich, poor and the perspectives of both.