Title
Preview
Creation Date
2009
Description
Lighthouse
16 minutes, color, stereo sound, DV, 2009
Production: China/USA
Award
Distinction Prize Award and Honorable Mention at the IN-OUT Festival, the Lazniz Centre for Contemporary Art (Centrum Sztuki Współczesnej Łaźnia), Poland, 2009
World Premiere
Amsterdam International Documentary Film Festival (IDFA)
Film Distribution
Video Data Bank (VDB), The School of Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 2001–present
Short Synopsis
“Lighthouse” is about Chinese workers working and living at a factory town in southern China. The viewer is led to actively compose narratives through the ironic and the sublime images. It aims to open borders that separate cultural, linguistic and historical differences in the global labor systems.
Keywords
Chinese workers, labor system, factory workers