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This film explores multinational shoe company Bata’s impact on individual lives and their surroundings. The film’s aesthetic, shifting from site to site and shot to shot, offers pockets as a visual version of the bubble that was the Bata colony itself. The characters are all connected to that past. They guide the viewers through the merging of past and present in memory. The film’s colouration also evokes this mixture.
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Maitrayee Mukhopadhyay
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Self - Former Batanagar Resident
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Ashim Chatterjee
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Self - Former Superintendent, Bata
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Tomáš Jan Baťa
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Self - Archival Footage
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Pavel Velev
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Self - Director, Bata Foundation Czech Republic
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Sonja Baťa
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Self - Board of Directors, Bata
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Václav Sýkora
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Self - Pioneer, Bata
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Mary Duffus
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Self - Former Factory Worker, Bata
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Michal Janský
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Self - Managing Director, Bata Central Europe
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Pavel Hajný
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Self - Historian
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Sushant Rakshit
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Self - Former Manager, Bata
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Ranjit Das Sharma
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Self - Employee, Bata
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Adhrishya Kumar
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Self - Activist
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Susmita Adhikari
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Self - Former Batanagar Resident
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Nepal Chandra Ganguly
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Self - Former Chief Engineer, Bata
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Biplab Karmakar
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Self - Assistant Manager, Bata
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Jyotindra Chakravarty
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Self - Quality Control Manager, Bata
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