Wang Bing: Youth Trilogy

In his monumental Youth Trilogy, filmmaker Wang Bing offers an unflinching portrayal of contemporary China’s relentless economic expansion through the lives of young garment workers in the textile factories of Zhili province. Shot between 2014 and 2019, this verité saga comprises nearly ten hours of footage meticulously curated from over 2,600 hours of filming, capturing the raw and unfiltered realities of labor under capitalism. An epochal, career-defining work of “21st-century turbo-capitalism captured with the spirit of 19th-century social realism” from “China’s foremost cine-sociologist.”-Sight & Sound.