Dirt
- Studio
- National Film Board of Canada
- Distributor
- National Film Board of Canada
Synopsis
"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 barbecue 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.
Credits
Directing
- Director
- Meghna Haldar
Producing
- Producer
- Tracey Friesen
- Executive Producer
- Rina Fraticelli
- Line Producer
- Meghna Haldar
Writing
- Writer
- Meghna Haldar
Animation
- Animator
- Myron Campbell (Lead Animator)
- 3D Animator
- Trent Noble
- 3D Compositor
- Daniel Gies
Music
- Music
- Clinker
- Sound Designer
- Dennis Burke
- Musicians
- Gary James Joynes, Cory Melnychuk (Les Robot)
- Music Editor
- Dennis Burke
Editing
- Editor
- Carmen Pollard
Crew
- Cinematographer
- P.J. Raval
- Additional Cinematography
- Mrinmoy Nandi, Kirk Tougas
- Location Sound Recordists
- Partha Pratim Barman, Chris Keyland, Ben Lazard, Merce Williams, Girjashanker Vohra, Jeff Henschel
- Assistant Camera
- Jeremy Rodgers, Robert Sands, Monickumar Gandhi, Robert Simpson
- Additional Crew
- Rajesh Dham, Chanpreet Singh, Tapan Sikdar, Tarun Mukherjee, P. Chandrasekhar, R. Murali, Arun Roy
- Production Managers
- Sugata Choudhari, Rebecca Hope Siegel, Kaushik Guha
- Production Assistants
- Anne Margaret Reid, Brian Beal, Jesse Fleming, Felix Cheng
- Film Tests - Development
- Brian Johnson
- Graphic Artist
- Carmen Pollard
- Transcription
- Pamela Pellegrini
- Consultants
- Manfred Becker, Annie Reid
- Participants
- 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
- Dialogue Editor
- Andre Iwanchuk
- Sound Effects Editor
- Mike Paprocki
- Re-Recording Mixers
- Greg Stewart, Don Mann
- Re-Recording Facility
- Post Modern Sound
- Super 16mm Processing
- Technicolour Toronto
- Production Coordinators
- Teri Snelgrove, Christine Sears
- Technical Coordinator
- Wes Machnikowski
- Production Supervisor
- Kathryn Lynch
- Marketing Manager
- Kay Leung
- Program Administrator
- Bruce Hagerman
Companies and other credits
- Super 16mm Processing: Video Post & Transfer
- Super 16mm Processing: Prasad Film Labs
- Super 16mm Processing: Rainmaker Digital Pictures
- Post-Production Services: Shaman Digital Media
Production notes
Live action with animation.