Dirt (Abridged Version)

200850 min 58 secFilm: Documentary

Direction: Meghna Haldar

Production: Tracey FriesenRina Fraticelli

Script: Meghna Haldar

'What is it about feeling dirty that shames us into silence and disgust?' asks director Meghna Haldar in the feature documentary Dirt. From the slums of Kolkata to Vancouver's Downtown Eastside to a barbeque joint in Central Texas - everyone has a different story. Dirt isn't just a four letter word, it contains a world of meaning spanning the divine to the profane. A quixotic odyssey into all things unclean, 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.

Subject categories

  • Social Issues > Society

Credits

writer
Meghna Haldar
director
Meghna Haldar
producer
Tracey Friesen
editor
Carmen Pollard
cinematographer
P.J. Raval
composer
Clinker
sound designer
Dennis Burke
lead animator
Myron Campbell
line production
Meghna Haldar
additional cinematography
Mrinmoy Nandi
Kirk Tougas
location sound recording
Partha Pratim Barman
Chris Keyland
Ben Lazard
Merce Williams
Girjashanker Vohra
Jeff Henschel
3D animator
Trent Noble
3D compositor
Daniel Gies
assistant camera
Jeremy Rodgers
Robert Sands
Monickumar Gandhi
Rob Simpson
additional crew
Rajesh Dham
Chanpreet Singh
Tapan Sikdar
Tarun Mukherjee
P. Chandrasekhar
R. Murali
Arun Roy
production manager
Sugata Choudhari
Rebecca Hope Siegel
Kaushik Guha
production assistant
Anne Margaret Reid
Brian Beal
Jesse Fleming
Felix Cheng
film tests - development
Brian Johnson
graphic artist
Carmen Pollard
transcription
Pamela Pellegrini
consultant
Manfred Becker
Annie Reid
participant
Puja Haldar
Subroto Haldar
Anila Bhaduri
Mierle Laderman Ukeles
William Cohen
Pooja Kumar
Govind Nath
Abha Bahadur
Sudama Das
Mohammad Noor Islam
Andrew J. Schorr
Juliet M. Dervin
Eileen Cleere
Kevin M. Anderson
Patricia Q. Richardson
Julie Dulani
Casimira Roca Y Toscas
Ross Martinez
Michael A. Armenta
Susan Davis
Robert Joseph
Ruth Witt
Michael V. Smith
Gloria Burke
Xavier Benoit Benjamin
Sarah Theresa Frances Moran
clearances
Found Images Research
musician
Gary James Joynes
Cory Melnychuk (Les Robot)
music editor
Dennis Burke
dialogue editor
Andre Iwanchuk
sound effects editor
Mike Paprocki
re-recording mixer
Greg Stewart
Don Mann
re-recording facility
Post Modern Sound
Super 16mm processing
Video Post & Transfer
Technicolour Toronto
Prasad Film Labs
Rainmaker Digital Pictures
post-production services
Shaman Digital Media
production coordinator
Teri Snelgrove
Christine Sears
technical coordinator
Wes Machnikowski
production supervisor
Kathryn Lynch
marketing manager
Kay Leung
program administrator
Bruce Hagerman
executive producer
Rina Fraticelli