Journeys

What does it mean to be part of a desperate crowd of seven million commuters, to whom the journey between home and workplace is a nightmare? In Mumbai (Bombay), a city of 15 million people, as nearly 4,000 people are killed every year as they fall off of trains or are run over on the tracks. The film uses sound and visual juxtapositions to actively build a montage of this surreal world. The film juxtaposes this tragic situation with mainstream discourses on progress and military power. Richly detailed, poetic, and nearly non-verbal, "Journeys" subtly and pointedly explores universal issues of space and human relations within a very specific environment.