Wang Bing: "Made in China"

In 2015 Wang Bing sets out for the Shanghai region at the heart of China’s garment manufacturing industry. For this new film, he had to plunge into a reality alien to him, understand the inhabitants’ way of life, mentality and dialect. Five years of filming with several cameras, 2,600 hours of rushes to capture the violence of a state capitalism whose only rule is the relentless exploitation of young people from rural areas. It is to this new working class that Wang Bing dedicates his tryptic, Youth. A monument that, once again, uncovers in all its harshness the terrible reality of a China where servitude and alienation leave little room for the individual destinies that this Chinese youth nonetheless aspires to.