
Useless
Genre: DocumentaryRuntime: 1h 24mRelease: 6th February, 2008Plot: 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.
Company: China Film Association, Mixmind Art and Design Company, Xstream Pictures