Made from footage gathered by historian Janaki Nair,sheds light on what lies thousands of feet beneath the surface of the earth,deep beyond the dark hole visible from above. The camera follows the mine workers as they extract ore for gold,revealing what lies beyond the black sun.
A disjunctive montage of freckled 8mm home movies and jarring sounds of everyday life, You are Here conjures a day in the life of mid-century India. The film maps the fragility of its 8 mm material with the specters of India’s modernity—the array of shots of the world through windows of vehicles, moving trains, balloons in air, busy bridges, flowing water bodies, sites of worship, and ordinary people in their everyday activities.
