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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 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 was David Redmon‚s first film. During the course of researching a film on the "Girls Gone Wild" phenomenon, he became fascinated with the idea of connecting the drunken revelers who toss brightly colored beads in the streets of New Orleans to the teenage girls who make them at a factory in China. (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. Redmon uses one There, I met numerous teenagers, many of whom agreed to participate in the making of my documentary, “Mardi Gras: Made in China.” Among them was 15-year-old Qui Bia. 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. 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. It’s a question David Redmon’s compelling Mardi Gras: Made in China seems to ask but doesn’t pretend to answer. Redmon reveals how the disposable commodity of Mardi Gras beads comes to us by way of Fuzhou’s Tai Kuen factory, whose predominantly female workers toil away for up to 20 hours a day for 10 cents an hour to supply our 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 Mardi Gras: Made in China follows the "bead trail" from the factory in China to Bourbon Street during Mardi Gras, poignantly exposing the inequities of globalization. First-time director David Redmon cleverly illuminates the clash of cultures by juxtaposing American excess and consumer ignorance against the harsh life of the Chinese factory worker. Mardi Gras: Made in China follows a single commodity, the beads used by revelers during New Orleans’ Carnival, fromthefactoryinChina wherethey areproduced tothe 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 Mardi Gras: Made in China explores the clash of cultures and economies as it follows the "bead trail" of festive baubles from the Chinese factories and production workers who make them to Bourbon Street and the Mardi Gras revelers who eagerly consume and discard them. Mardi Gras: Made in China. Reviewed by Ken Hanke on October 26, 2005 October 26, dull-as-ditchwater tract on the evils of globalization. Rather than preach on the topic, he allows his footage Are you ready for some GUILT? Well, I hope so, especially if you’ve ever gone wild for some beads at Mardi Gras. This tale of globalization is here to rub your face 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 Globalization Gone Wild; Mike Presdee; facebook; Powered by Vimeo Pro. Series of videos on Mardi Gras: Made in China to accompany the book Beads, Bodies, and Trash 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. 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 Mardi Gras: Made in China follows the "bead trail" from the factory in China to Bourbon Street during Mardi Gras, poignantly exposing the inequities of globalization. First-time director David Redmon cleverly illuminates the clash of cultures by juxtaposing American excess and consumer ignorance against the harsh life of the Chinese factory worker.
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