Tudzhi AKA Cast Iron ( Otar Iosseliani, 1964)

A gorgeous b w short documentary on a metalworking plant in Georgia. The industrial situation presents a steady stream of striking images: workers in silhouette as molten metal erupts behind them, a vanishingpoint view of people walking down on a street toward a billowing smokestack (as if they are going up in smoke), men inflating their shirts with a highpowered fan. Inside the plant the workers dig and prod while the metal flows like lava. The work is mysterious as there s no spoken dialogue.