Manufacturing LIFE
Film with sound(16:9, 14 min)
An artistic assumption of how human life is created. Before a new person is born, three
games are played to determine his time and place of birth, his gender and the course of his
life. A maschine records the information in the form of a graph which is read by the new
born person towards the end of the film.
Stills from video:
A saint on the river bank plays a game of horoscopes with a pair of dice and a sand clock to determine the place, date and time of birth. The nine planets are counters that are to be moved on the board which has twelve houses.
A pair of twins play book cricket to determine the gender of the person to be born.
A pair of factory workers play the card game Man and Master to decide the course of life. A machine records their conversation in the form of a graph.
The newborn person reads the graph to decode the course of her life.