Critics Review
Invisible Demons
Rahul Jain's documentary, in its unfiltered lenses and panning vistas of ugliness, expose the worst kinds of effects mankind has created on nature.
SOHAM GADRE
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"Here he has captured some nightmarish images that genuinely look as if they could have been staged for a sci-fi film... A drone shot of a great river of rubbish flowing through the city like some feature of the landscape is grotesquely beautiful."
CATH CLARKE
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"...there’s also, in the striking, savage beauty of the photography, an affinity with Liang Zhao’s Behemoth, which observed the way that China’s heavy industry devoured and destroyed the land."
"Right from its opening sequence... Invisible Demons sets itself up as a visual essay of a dystopia that is already underway."
Nandini Ramnath
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"This is an incisive documentary that goes for the kill, cleverly using imagery instead to tell the story... [and] solidifies Rahul Jain as a strong voice of modern world cinema."
Paul Emmanuel Enicola
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"Jain's powerful documentary captures the pervasive pollution in New Delhi, India's capital city, in a series of appalling images."
Critics Review
Machines
"The most powerful Marxist treatment of labor exploitation that I have seen in 25 years of reviewing film."
"A hypnotic and sensuous immersion... uncompromising and unforgettable."
Aaron Hillis
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"A nightmarishly beautiful documentary... transporting us back to a Dickensian world of unending toil – all cogs, levers and child labour.”
"Captures beautifully ugly subterranean tableaus of steam and rust... an endlessly watchable parade of shots." — The Film Experience
The Film Experience
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"Conveys with revelatory force the mechanization of people in an industrialized milieu."
Kenji Fujishima
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"A visually sumptuous observation piece that transcends being a mere social commentary." — Dustin Chang
"Bleak yet dazzling beauty." — Eye for Film