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EVERY PULSE OF THE HEART IS WORK
By Pawel Wojtasik

Every Pulse of the Heart is Work - is work, but work as understood as devotion.

Five years in the making, the film consists of meditative portraits of a broad range of laborers, such as a crane operator, a surgeon, a weaver, a priest, a masseur, a tabla drum maker, and others. The camera enters into an intimately attentive relation with the subjects and their workplaces: a cremation ground, a hospital, an apartment tower under construction. The streets of the city themselves form an important work site, where much of the activity takes place.

With his attentive, unobtrusive approach to his subjects, Wojtasik simultaneously explores labor as a material process, a state of mind, and an integral component of a larger network of social and economic relations. The work of a dentist is granted the same time and attention as that of a street beggar; both forms of labor take place on the street, where they can be observed both by the filmmakers and the inhabitants of Varanasi as they go about their daily lives. In the end, the singular portraits of Indian workers build towards a composite vision of society, where each has a place in the tangled web of human endeavor.
DVD
86 minutes
2019
 
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