Dirt

Haldar, Meghna, (film director.). Friesen, Tracey, (film producer.). Fraticelli, Rina, (film producer.). National Film Board of Canada (Montreal), (film producer.).

Summary: "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.

Record details

Physical Description: 1 streaming video (81 min., 34 sec.) : sound + 1 study guide
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Publisher: Montreal : National Film Board of Canada, 2015.
Copyright: ©2008

Content descriptions

General Note:	Agency - English program:.Pacific and Yukon Centre. Study guide available.
Restrictions on Access Note:	No restrictions.
Creation/Production Credits Note:	Writer, Meghna Haldar ; director, Meghna Haldar ; producer, Tracey Friesen ; editor, Carmen Pollard ; cinematographer, P.J. Raval ; composer, null Clinker ; sound designer, Dennis Burke ; lead animator, Myron Campbell ; location sound recordist, Partha Pratim Barman, Chris Keyland, Ben Lazard, Merce Williams, Girjashanker Vohra, Jeff Henschel ; 3D animator, Trent Noble ; consultant, Manfred Becker, Annie Reid ; sound effects editor, Mike Paprocki ; re-recording mixer, Greg Stewart, Don Mann ; executive producer, Rina Fraticelli.
Participant or Performer Note:	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.
Date/Time and Place of an Event Note:	Recorded 2008.
Target Audience Note:	15-18.
System Details Note:	Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Awards Note:	Leo Award for Best Sound Editing in a Documentary Program or Series, 2009 Leo Award for Best Screenwriting in a Documentary Program or Series, 2009 Leo Award for Best Picture Editing in a Documentary Program or Series, 2009 Best Feature Documentary, 2009
Source of Description Note:	Description based on online resource; title from title screen (National Film Board of Canada, viewed 2024-07-01).