Dirt

DIRECTOR MEGHNA HALDAR IN PERSON |  “What is it about feeling dirty that shames us into silence and disgust? From the slums of Kolkata to Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside to a barbeque joint in Central Texas, everyone has a different story—sex workers, poop scientists, sanitation artists, Catholic priests, cemetery workers, historians and little kids. Director Meghna Haldar sets out on a quixotic odyssey to unearth the muck of human history and culture asking, ‘When did cleanliness become next to Godliness? Where is the line drawn between race, class and dirt?’ Featuring animation to make Hieronymus Bosch blush, tracks from Godspeed You! Black Emperor and an experimental soundscape by Clinker, Dirt digs deep to illuminate the positively filthy experience of being human" (DOXA Documentary Film Festival). Colour, Digibeta video. 82 mins.