Wu Yong

Jia Zhang Ke

IndieLisboa 2008 •

China, Documentary, 2007, 81′

A devastating but focused and compassionate documentary about the fashion world in China, the largest exporter of garments on the planet. Useless depicts the laborers working vast factories with the efficiency and precision of machines, and also portrays the industry’s innovative fashion designers. With disarming simplicity, Jia both informs and seduces as he portrays the unknown faces of changing China.