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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. 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 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. Opens today in Manhattan Directed by David Redmon In English, Mandarin and Fujian, with English subtitles Not rated; 74 minutes. In his documentary "Mardi Gras: Made in China," David Redmon asks 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. 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. 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 Watch Mardi Gras: Made in China (2005) free starring Roger Wong and directed by David Redmon. "Mardi Gras: Made in China" explores the journey of Mardi Gras beads from a bustling Fuzhou factory to the vibrant streets of New Orleans, revealing the unseen cultural ties and economic impacts behind the festive glitz and glamour in a globalized world. 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. I am confident that having seen “Mardi Gras: Made in China,” I will never expose my breasts in exchange for beads again. Between this and “Super Size Me,” no one’s ever going to want to do anything fun anymore. This is a wry, eye-opening documentary about the Chinese sweatshops that manufacture the strings of beads [] David Redmon’s documentary, Mardi Gras: Made in China (2005) provides an insight on Karl Marx’s theory of exploitation within capitalism. It does an exceptional job at explaining how exploitation exists in a capitalist society by tracing the simple commodity of beads used in the festival of Mardi Gras in New Orleans while revealing the hidden picture of its social and economic effect on Please watch the video response!Teaser: Movie trailer ,offered as a service to educate and inform,and increase awareness of the effects of consumer choices,a Mardi Gras: Made in China (2005) *** (out of 4) Pretty interesting documentary that shows where the beads used in Mardi Gras come from. We see people being forced to work 14 hours and if they don't get their numbers then they must work over off the clock. (Mardi Gras: Made in China is now available on DVD through David Redmon and partner Ashley Sabin’s Carnivalesque Films. Buy it there or at Amazon.. Sociologist turned documentary filmmaker David Redmon’s debut feature is an intelligent, thoughtful and entertaining exploration into the troubling effects of globalization. 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 final part of the paper turns to an analysis of Mardi Gras: Made in China itself to illustrate the overlap of theory, methods, and reflexive practices of documentary criminology within four broad aesthetic domains: temporality, topography, corporeality, and the personal. We both get a cheap thrill and you get some beads. Who is getting the worse end of this transaction? According to Mardi Gras: Made in China, it is probably the workers at Tai Kuen Bead Factory in Fuzhou, China. At its core, Mardi Gras is about the production of pleasure in the global economy. It clashes American excess and consumerism with the 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. A documentary that stirs the conscience, Mardi Gras: Made in China opens with a disclaimer: “All of the material in this film was shot before Hurricane Katrina.” But New Orleans is really
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