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Mardi Gras: Made in China: Directed by David Redmon. With Roger Wong. This examination of cultural and economic globalization follows the life-cycle of Mardi Gras beads from a small factory in Fuzhou, China, to Mardi Gras in New Orleans, and to art galleries in New York City. Mardi Gras: Made in China follows a single commodity, the beads used by revelers during New Orleans' Carnival, from the factory in China where they are produced to the streets of New Orleans where they are consumed. The film starts with images of Mardi Gras and then moves to China, focusing on four teenage girls working in the Tai Kuen bead This examination of cultural and economic globalization follows the life-cycle of Mardi Gras beads from a small factory in Fuzhou, China, to Mardi Gras in New Orleans, and to art galleries in New York City. A version of this article appears in print on , Section E, Page 14 of the National edition with the headline: Film in Review; Mardi Gras: Made in China. Order Reprints | Today’s Paper | Subscribe Official Selection: Sundance Film Festival. Winner of twenty-one national and international awards, Mardi Gras: Made in China follows the path of Mardi Gras beads from the streets of New Orleans during Carnival - where revelers party and exchange beads for nudity - to the disciplined factories in Fuzhou, China - where teenage girls live and sew beads together all day and night. The award winning documentary, Mardi Gras: Made in China, swiftly follows the path of Mardi Gras beads from the naked streets of New Orleans during Carnival - where revelers party 24/7 - to the disciplined factories in Fuzhou, China - where teenage laborers live and thread beads 24/7. Winner of twenty-one national and international awards, Mardi Gras: Made in China follows the path of Mardi Gras beads from the streets of New Orleans during Carnival – where revelers party and exchange beads for nudity – to the disciplined factories in Fuzhou, China – where teenage girls live and sew beads together all day and night. Mardi Gras: Made in China provides a wonderful, intricate connection between popular culture, nudity, and globalization through the making and tossing of beads. I saw this film at the International Film Festival of Boston, and was expecting a dry introduction to globalization, but what I got was a riveting visual display of shocking footage Blending curiosity with comedy, Mardi Gras: Made in China is the only film to explore how the toxic products directly affect the people who both make and consume them. Review Punchy documentary critique of globalization looks at the conditions in a factory in the Chinese city of Fuzhou where young workers make the beads showered onto revelers Michael Ordoña Los Angeles Times Mardi Gras: Made in China is a thought-provoking, canny piece of filmmaking that puts flesh, blood and garish multicolored baubles on the skeleton of globalization. A documentary about the labor used to produce Mardi Gras beads. Young uneducated, rural young women are used because they are easier to control and will work long hours for 20 cents an hour. Entertaining to watch as the young women are interviewed as well as their boss. Prudent editing might sharpen the focus and temper the moralizing in "Mardi Gras: Made in China," an obviously sincere but didactically repetitive docu about overworked and underpaid workers in Mardi Gras: Made in China is a documentary film made in 2005, directed by David Redmon, that explores the cultural phenomenon of Mardi Gras in New Orleans and its connection to Chinese-made beads. The film follows the journey of a young Chinese factory worker named Jasmine who works in a factory in Fuzhou, China that produces Mardi Gras beads The award winning documentary, Mardi Gras: Made in China, swiftly follows the path of Mardi Gras beads from the naked streets of New Orleans during Carnival - where revelers party 24/7 - to the disciplined factories in Fuzhou, China - where teenage laborers live and thread beads 24/7. Mardi Gras: Made in China is an attempt to make transparent the economic and social disparities between the makers of Mardi Gras beads in China and the end users in New Orleans. Clearly the workers in China are paid a wage that is at the bottom end of the global wage scale. Study with Quizlet and memorize flashcards containing terms like In the film "Mardi Gras: Made in China," the social class structure of the factory appears to consist of two classes: the workers, and Roger Wong, the factory owner. Which (or whose) conception of class does this most closely resemble?, In the film "Mardi Gras - Made in China," we visited the rural home of one of the young girl Study with Quizlet and memorize flashcards containing terms like where does the Mardi Gras celebration shown in the video take place? how are beads used by the revelers?, what is the percentage of female workers versus male workers in the factory where the beads are produced? why does roger like this ratio?, how many hours a day do the employees work? how much do they earn? and more. David Redmon has. A writer who has never made a film until now, he followed the beads’ genealogy back to the industrial town of Fuzhou, China, where there is a factory that is the world’s largest producer of beads and other Mardi Gras-related trinkets. Whatever his inspiration, Redmon’s curiosity and travels to find out who makes Mardi Gras beads result in a humorous, economically revealing documentary. “Mardi Gras: Made in China” starts with scenes from New Orleans. Redmon stops a partygoer and asks her about the origin of the beads. The girl doesn’t know but awaits the answer. This ingenious premise—following an inanimate object from creation to destruction—enables Redmon to expose the free market system at its most cutthroat and inhumane. While this description might make it sound like Mardi Gras: Made in China would be a dry, stuffy experience, Redmon infuses the film with an inquisitive, engaging spirit
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