Useless (2008)

Release Date: 2008-02-06
Runtime: 1h 24min
Production Company: China Film Association
Production Country: China, Hong Kong
Director: Jia Zhangke

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.