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Useless

Useless

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Status

Released

Release Date

Feb 6, 2008

Runtime

1h 24m

Genres

Documentary

User Score

64%

Original Title

无用

Production Companies

China Film Association, Mixmind Art and Design Company, Xstream Pictures

Director

Jia Zhangke

Description

Observations of three varied corners of China’s garment industry: workers in a large-scale production line factory; a designer who rallies against the mass-machine-production of clothes and has created the eponymous hand-made collection called ‘Useless’ (Wuyong) for Paris Fashion Week; and finally the simple life of increasingly out-of-work tailors in small town Fengdang.