Every Pulse of the Heart Is Work. 2019. Directed by Paweł Wojtasik

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Every Pulse of the Heart Is Work. 2019. USA/India/France. Directed by Paweł Wojtasik. Courtesy Paweł Wojtasik.

Every Pulse of the Heart Is Work. 2019. USA/India/France. Directed by Paweł Wojtasik. North American premiere. Courtesy Grasshopper Film
. In Hindi/Malayalam; English subtitles. 86 min.

Filming largely in India’s ancient holy city of Varanasi, Paweł Wojtasik has created a hypnotic study of people at work—a street beggar, a surgeon, a weaver, a priest, a masseur, a tabla drum maker, and a crane operator: people who in their intense concentration and ritualized movements evoke the idea of human labor as an act of spiritual devotion and social interdependence.

This film accompanies Doc Fortnight 2020: MoMA’s Festival of International Nonfiction Film and Media.

Mon, Feb 17, 2020, 7:30 p.m.

Introduced by filmmaker

MoMA, Floor T2/T1, Theater 1

The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 1
Mon, Feb 10, 2020, 4:30 p.m.

MoMA, Floor T2/T1, Theater 2

The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 2

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