01 Jan 1968
Forms and Designs
A short film that sets up an opposition between functional forms of industrial age and decorative ones from Indian tradition.
Machines
This portrayal of the rhythm of life and work in a gigantic textile factory in Gujarat, India, moves through the corridors and bowels of the enormously disorienting structure—taking the viewer on a journey of dehumanizing physical labor and intense hardship.
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