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Platform Ghosts – Turker, Farmer, Bot(2023)
Tamil13 mins
Platform Ghosts – Turker, Farmer, Bot (2023) is a 13-minute Tamil film directed by Aarti Sunder. Starring Aarti Sunder.
Director:Aarti Sunder
Mood:
darkdisturbingemotional
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Quick Facts
- Theatrical Release
- 8 October 2023
- Director
- Aarti Sunder
- Language
- Tamil
- Runtime
- 13m
Storyline
This documentary shows the natural cycle of scavengers feeding on dead animals. At the same time, it contrasts this with stories about ghosts, which are written by online workers for very low pay.
“Ghosts of the gig economy, told by nature's cleaners.”
Film Details
Rating
13Minutes
TamilLanguage
Release Date8 October 2023
Parental Guide
Violence
Mild
Language
Low
Sex / Nudity
Mild
Drugs
Mild
Intensity
Mild
Vibe & Tags
Mood
darkdisturbingemotional
Themes
survivalidentitycorruptionlabour
Tonegritty
Pacingnon-linear
Complexityrequires-attention
Audienceniche
Best Withalone
Violence2
Emotion4
Humor1
Rewatchability3
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Trivia
- The film's title refers to Amazon's Mechanical Turk, an online platform where people perform small digital tasks for pay.
- Director Aarti Sunder combined documentary footage of natural decay with narrated ghost stories from online workers.
- It was filmed partly in rural Tamil Nadu, showing scavenger birds and insects as part of the 'labour' cycle.
- The movie uses no professional actors, featuring real farmers and platform workers sharing their experiences.
- It premiered at a small experimental film festival in Chennai before limited online streaming.
- The sound design mixes field recordings from farms with digital notification sounds from the internet platform.
- This was Aarti Sunder's first feature-length film after several short documentaries on digital labour.