Unravel

Unravel follows the Western worlds least wanted clothes, on a journey across Northern India, from sea to industrial interior. They get sent to Panipat, a sleepy town and the only place in the world that wants them, recycling them back into yarn. Reshma is a bright, inquisitive woman working in a textile recycling factory in small time India, who dreams of travelling the vast distances the clothes she handles have. While Reshma shows us how thesegarments get transformed, she and other women workers reflect on these clothes. Despite limited exposure to western culture, they construct a picture of how the West is, using both their imagination and the rumours that travel with the cast-offs.

Human/Nature
Director:
Meghna Gupta
Year:
2012
Country:
United Kingdom, India
Genre:
Documentary
Length:
14'
Producer:
Gigi Berardi
Photography:
Susanne Willet
Editing:
Prano Bailey-Bond