Of the billion or so viral particles you encounter each day, you bump into some that are capable of infecting human cells. Viruses enter your body each time you take a bite of food or a drink of water. With every breath, you inhale around six liters of air with thousands (or even millions) of viral particles. You have always lived within the virosphere-the vast but poorly understood universe of viruses. Confined to your own apartment or small social bubble, you might have thought you were beyond the sphere of viral influence. If you ignore the maddeningly vague explanatory portions and focus purely on the stellar efforts of cinematographers Saumyananda Sahi, Rodrigo Trejo Villaneuva and Tuomo Hutri, Invisible Demons achieves what it sets out to do: to create a 70-minute snapshot of a problem that plagues Delhi but is by no means restricted to the national capital.Perhaps you thought you could isolate yourself from viruses during the lockdowns of the coronavirus pandemic. Jain’s own commentary contains a dubious return-to-nature prescription. The interviews reveal fatalism, best expressed by a boatman navigating his vessel past toxic foam on the Yamuna river: the seasons are not following a schedule anymore, the gods have changed and so have we humans. The new documentary is more loosely structured, depending heavily on a voiceover by Jain, interviews and NDTV television reports to connect its grimly poetic montages. Invisible Demons doesn’t have the deft interweave between images and information that characterised Machines. Jain made his debut in 2016 with the visually striking documentary Machines, which captured the workplace rhythms of a textile mill in Gujarat. On the streets, citizens grapple with poisonous air, unseasonal rain, and other effects of a crisis that they cannot even begin to comprehend, let alone analyse. Drone shots reveal Delhi’s vehicular density, the sprawl of housing complexes and mountainous garbage landfills. Right from its opening sequence, in which a garden is enveloped by fumes emanating from a pesticide spraying machine, Invisible Demons sets itself up as a visual essay of a dystopia that is already underway. Rather, Rahul Jain’s film – now showing on MUBI – serves up a sensory experience, detailing Delhi’s nightmare on the ground and from high up in the sky. Invisible Demons, a documentary on the abnormally high pollution levels in Delhi, reveals neither the roots of the problem nor offers any tangible solutions. Amitabh Bachchan How a man of such imperfection came to matter so much to so many.The big news: Liz Truss resigns as British PM after six weeks, and nine other top stories.Firms are increasingly tracking users’ eye movements, to the discomfort of ethicists.Watch: Tai Tzu Ying produces a moment of magic in the opening round at Denmark Open Super 750.In Sudha Murty’s new book for children, a young girl traces the path of the mighty Tungabhadra river.Could Greece and Turkey be headed to war over the Aegean islands and other festering disagreements?.Denmark Open as it happened: Lakshya defeats Prannoy, Satwik-Chirag also through to QF, Srikanth out.A sex tape leads to a perfect storm in Kannada film ‘Seventeeners’.Groundswell of support, a happy energy: Eight hours with the Bharat Jodo Yatra in Ballari.Then, Muslims were made to ‘compromise’ with Hindus Ladakh shows that Modi government has learnt the wrong lessons from the 1962 War.From the autobiography: Savita Ambedkar recalls her first meeting with future husband BR Ambedkar.
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