Every Pulse of the Heart Is Work (2019)

From a snake charmer to a welder from a weaver to an obstetrician the inhabitants of the holy city of Varanasi are striving for survival and transform and ennoble themselves in the process A hypnotic study of people at worka 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 Filmed largely in Indias ancient holy city of Varanasi