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Films
3 Films
with a digital version available
x
Country
“India”
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Keywords
“Labour”
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films with a digital version
3
x
short films
2
Region
South Asia
3
Country
India
3
x
Keywords
Collective / Community identity
1
Everyday Life
1
Film / Photography / Mass media
1
Labour
3
x
Material Culture
1
Directors
Grossenbacher, Ulrich
1
Gupta, Meghna
1
Hörmann, André
1
Luethi, Damaris
1
Series
not set
3
Country of production
Germany
1
India
1
Switzerland
1
United Kingdom
1
Year of production
1997
1
2006
1
2012
1
Film list
Calcutta Calling
2006
16
‘
Directed by
André Hörmann
.
“Business Process Outsourcing” is the fastest growing industry in the world. In India, approximately 350,000 people are currently working in call centres to maintain the contact between western
South Asia
Labour
Silk, Muthappar and VHS: Portraits from South India
1997
63
‘
Directed by
Ulrich Grossenbacher
Damaris Luethi
.
The documentary, filmed during ethnographic field research, shows three portraits of ‘ordinary’ personalities — Mala, a young weaver sharing a one-bedroom house with nine siblings; Santa Cruz,
South Asia
Labour
Everyday Life
Film / Photography / Mass media
Unravel
2012
14
‘
Directed by
Meghna Gupta
.
‘Unravel’ follows the Western worlds least wanted clothes, on a journey across Northern India, from sea to industrial interior. They get sent to Panipat, a sleepy town and the only place in the world
South Asia
Labour
Material Culture
Collective / Community identity