This film was shot between 2014 and 2019 in the town of Zhili, a district of Huzhou City in Zhejiang province, China. Zhili is home to over 18,000 privately-run workshops producing children's clothes, mostly for the domestic market, but some also for export. The workshops employ around 300,000 migrant workers, chiefly from the rural provinces of Yunnan, Guizhou, Anhui, Jiangxi, Henan and Jiangsu.
Directed by Wang Bing
china
labor
garment factory
migrant worker
workshop
garment industry
Trailer
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Letterboxd
3.8 / 5
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Crew
Wang Bing
Director
Dominique Auvray
Editor
Isabelle Glachant
Co-Producer
Olivier Père
Co-Producer
Popular Reviews
5 reviews
klarouxe
8.0★ · 04/24/25
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Jackson Lang
🚨🚨I MET WANG BING FUCKERS🚨🚨
I got to take a pic with him and ask him a question which I will link below but for now here’s a rare review with no rating.
Imagine this is getting a kind of honorary shadow five star. This film has potential to be as good as Tie Xi Qu: west of the tracks And may be one of the best films of all time.
However.
It’s just not done. Tie Xi Qu: West of the tracks was split into three feature length sections Rust, Remnant and rails this film is only part one of a three-part film series. If you started watching Tie Xi Qu: west of the tracks and only watched rust It would still be a really good film but you’d only have watched a third of it and the other two parts are essential to the complete experience. Even in something like Tie Xi Qu: west of the tracks the parts individually can still be extremely powerful. But It is together in their full context that the film truly becomes something transcendental.
So I’m not gonna rate this not yet. This, however, I will say is absolutely on par with the first part of Tie Xi Qu: west of the tracks so far and again once completed this may genuinely be as good which considering the fact that I think Tie Xi Qu: west of the tracks is the best documentary of all time is not a statement I take lately.
During the Q&A Wang said that the editing process for part two has almost finished and will come out fairly soon and that part three will follow suit. From what he said about the next two parts I am very very very excited.
Wang Bing might be the best currently living Director.
I got to take a pic with him and ask him a question which I will link below but for now here’s a rare review with no rating.
Imagine this is getting a kind of honorary shadow five star. This film has potential to be as good as Tie Xi Qu: west of the tracks And may be one of the best films of all time.
However.
It’s just not done. Tie Xi Qu: West of the tracks was split into three feature length sections Rust, Remnant and rails this film is only part one of a three-part film series. If you started watching Tie Xi Qu: west of the tracks and only watched rust It would still be a really good film but you’d only have watched a third of it and the other two parts are essential to the complete experience. Even in something like Tie Xi Qu: west of the tracks the parts individually can still be extremely powerful. But It is together in their full context that the film truly becomes something transcendental.
So I’m not gonna rate this not yet. This, however, I will say is absolutely on par with the first part of Tie Xi Qu: west of the tracks so far and again once completed this may genuinely be as good which considering the fact that I think Tie Xi Qu: west of the tracks is the best documentary of all time is not a statement I take lately.
During the Q&A Wang said that the editing process for part two has almost finished and will come out fairly soon and that part three will follow suit. From what he said about the next two parts I am very very very excited.
Wang Bing might be the best currently living Director.
