Vikalp@Prithvi is screening The Story of Film: An Odyssey, a documentary film about the history of film, today. It is directed and narrated by Mark Cousins, a film critic from Northern Ireland and is based on his 2004 book The Story of Film. <img alt="" src="http://images.mid-day.com/2013/feb/nigeria03.jpg" style="width: 500px; height: 330px;" /> A still from Workingman&rsquo;s Death depicting butchers in an open-air market in Nigeria The screening will be followed by a talk by Rafique Baghdadi, a freelance journalist and historian who has been writing about cinema for over 20 years. On February 26, The Root Reel is screening Workingman&rsquo;s Death, a 2005 Austrian-German documentary film written and directed by Michael Glawogger. The film deals with the extremes to which workers go to earn a living and showcases the plight of miners of Donets Basin; Ukraine, sulphur carriers in Ijen; Indonesia, butchers in an open-air market in Port Harcourt; Nigeria, welders in the Gadani ship-breaking yard in Pakistan, steel workers in Liaoning; China and youth in a former German industrial complex, which has been converted into a leisure park. <h2 class="footer_style"> On: Today, 7 pm onwards; At Prithvi House, Juhu; On February 26, 6.30 pm; At Alliance Francaise Auditorium, New Marine Lines.</h2>

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