https://indianpedia.org/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Machines_filmMachines film - Revision history2026-07-31T19:28:41ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.45.4https://indianpedia.org/index.php?title=Machines_film&diff=69435&oldid=prev>PrimeBOT at 17:36, 26 May 20202020-05-26T17:36:59Z<p></p>
<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2018}}<br />
{{Use Indian English|date=November 2018}}<br />
{{Infobox film<br />
| name = Machines<br />
| image = <br />
| alt = <br />
| caption = <br />
| native_name = <!-- {{Infobox name module|language|title}} or {{Infobox name module|title}} --><br />
| director = Rahul Jain<br />
| producer = <br />
| writer = <br />
| screenplay = <br />
| story = <br />
| based_on = <!-- {{Based on|title of the original work|creator of the original work|additional creator(s), if necessary}} --><br />
| starring = <br />
| narrator = <br />
| music = <br />
| cinematography = Rodrigo Trejo Villanueva<br />
| editing = Yael Bitton<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://filmmakermagazine.com/101425-an-act-of-resistance-against-the-flux-of-capital-editor-yael-bitton-on-machines/#.XZA-p1UzbIU|title="An Act of Resistance against the Flux of Capital": Editor Yael Bitton on Machines<br />
|website=filmmakermagazine.com|access-date=2019-09-29}}</ref> <br />
| studio = <!-- or: | production_companies = --><br />
| distributor = <!-- or: | distributors = --><br />
| released = 17 November 2016<br />
| runtime = 71 minutes<br />
| country = India/Germany/Finland<br />
| language = Hindi<br />
| budget = <br />
| gross = <br />
}}<br />
<br />
'''''Machines''''' is a 2016 documentary by Rahul Jain. The film is a look at factory life at a large [[textile mill]] in [[Gujarat]], [[India]]. The work is Rahul Jain's debut film.<br />
<br />
==Summary==<br />
The film's austere cinematography depicts a gritty factory environment where workers put in twelve hour shifts to make colorful fabrics. Interviews with the workers, interspersed with long shorts of the factory and its workers, "give the film a political edge."<ref name=MoMA /><br />
<br />
==Premiers==<br />
The film was released on 17 November 2016 at the [[International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam]] and played in the United States at the [[Sundance Film Festival]] on 20 January 2017.<ref name="IMDB release">{{cite web|title="Release info" for Machines|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5690244/releaseinfo?ref_=tt_dt_dt|website=IMDB|accessdate=7 April 2018}}</ref><br />
<br />
The New York premier of the film was at the [[Museum of Modern Art]] on 16 February 2017.<ref name="MoMA">{{cite web|title=Machines. 2016. Directed by Rahul Jain|url=https://www.moma.org/calendar/events/2813|website=MoMA|accessdate=7 April 2018}}</ref><br />
<br />
==Reception and awards==<br />
The film has a 92% "Fresh" approval rating from [[Rotten Tomatoes]] based on 25 reviews.<ref name="RT">{{cite web|title=Machines|url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/machines_2016/|website=Rotten Tomatoes|accessdate=7 April 2018}}</ref><br />
<br />
Cinematographer Rodrigo Trejo Villanueva received the World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Best Cinematography at the [[2017 Sundance Film Festival]] for the film.{{citation needed|date=November 2018}}<br />
<br />
==See also==<br />
*[[Textile industry in India]]<br />
*[[Indian labor law]]<br />
<br />
==References==<br />
{{reflist}}<br />
<br />
==External links==<br />
*[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5690244/ ''Machines'' at IMBD]<br />
*[https://variety.com/2016/film/festivals/rahul-jain-debut-docu-feature-machines-idfa-1201920556/ Dialogue with Rahul Jain about the film at Variety.com]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Indian documentary films]]<br />
[[Category:Films set in factories]]<br />
<br />
<br />
{{2010s-Hindi-film-stub}}<br />
{{documentary-film-stub}}</div>>PrimeBOT