Check the label on that garment hanging in your closet. If it reads “Made in China,” there’s a chance it was stitched together by one of the characters in Wang Bing’s documentary Youth (Spring), or…
Film Festival, which hadn’t welcomed a documentary into that prestige category in almost 20 years – was filmed over a five-year period in China’s Zhili City, known as the country’s capital of clothing manufacture. Every year young people from rural areas in Anhui and other provinces pour into the urban center looking for work. Thousands of privately owned garment “workshops” stand ready to employ them, or perhaps we should say exploit them.
At night the workers retire to company-owned “dormitories” – grimy dwellings with all the charm of a flophouse. It’s a shared bathroom situation – drawback! – but on the plus side, each occupant is generously furnished with a plastic basin that can be used to soak tired feet or scrub dirty clothes. They eat meals on the fly out of throwaway containers.’s purpose isn’t to expose abuse in the clothing trade .
That running time isn’t out of the norm for Wang, perhaps the leading documentarian based in China . His 2018 documentaryTie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks
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