LEADER 02267ngm a22002777a 4500005 20161125134713.0 005 hubpceu 007 v| |||||| 008 121017b########xx#|||############m|cmn|| 003 hubpceuo 099 FL Record |f0643 100 Redmon, David, |edirector. 245 Mardi Gras: Made in China 300 DVD-ROM (66 min.) 337 Moving image 500 Duration: 01:06:00 506 Restricted access 520 Each year on "Fat Tuesday," the last day before Lent, an enormous carnival spills into the the streets of the American city of the New Orleans. Necklaces made of beads play a large role in the festivities. Thousands of these fly throughout the air to those who are brave or brash enough to reveal their naked bodies before screaming crowds. Those who are present are oblivious to where these beads come from. All except for documentary filmmaker David Redmont, who in this very successful debut sets off to the Chinese facotry in the special economic zone of Fuijan where the beads are made. Over four hundred young women work here six days a week from morning until night treading beads or decorating miniature carnival masks. During the grueling work, under the threat of a fine, they are not allowed to even whisper. The average earnings for a 12-hour work shift is less than two dollars. Director David Redmontsucceeds in connecting the world of the American consumers and the Chinese workers in a very personal way, and the beads in his ingeniously constructed picture become a metaphor pointing to the structure of globalization, which creates social inequality. It is also worth paying attention to the soundtrack combining the col humor and irony of David Dogherty's mucis with the industrial rhythms of the facotry. 542 |fCopyright by Calley Media 655 4 Documentary films 260 United States : |bRedmon, David, |c2004. 041 cmneng |jeng 952 |00 |10 |2ddc |40 |6FL_RECORD_0643_000000000000000 |70 |8FL |9145775FL |bFL |d2019-02-15 |l0 |oFL Record 0643 |pHU_OSA_00002374.mp4 |r2021-11-04 |w2019-02-15 |yDIGIFILM |zAccess Copy, MP4 format |cAudio Visual 920 01 7XO3R2X4 966 True |bHU_OSA_00002374 |cDigitally Anywhere / With Registration