We Are What We Wear

The films in this program speak of the covered stories of culture and industry beneath fabrics and clothes, as well as the truth of self-esteem, ambitions and longings.

Description
While we wear the garments, they also wear us. Spanning diverse time zones, regions and cultures, the films in this program speak of the covered stories of culture and industry beneath fabrics and clothes, as well as the truth of self-esteem, ambitions and longings. Believe it or not, the garment pieces are sometimes more eloquent than the owner.

In This Program
Made In Chinatown(China): A factory seamstress is in a secret relationship with the factory owner’s son and hesitates to tell him of her pregnancy. The final showdown takes place in a nightclub where she has to face his friends and family and also herself.

Door God(China): The 7-year-old Lingli has been waiting more than two years for her mom to come home. When her family finally puts up the Door God for the Chinese New Year, her mother returns home, with a pair of new sneakers with lights and some irreversible changes to Lingli.

Factory Man: Due to the outsourcing of garment production en masse in the past few decades, New York’s once robust manufacturing industry has withered into a small number of factories scattered throughout the boroughs. In spite of this, at the heart of the city’s garment district, Johnny, a Korean-American immigrant garmento survived.

Red: In this exquisite short animation, a woman is born of a drop of blood that falls to Earth from the space.

Woman In Fragments: Anne Wong is a promising contemporary dancer, but her inability to tap into her emotions prevents her from realizing her full potential.

Hype Beasts: The most coveted new sneaker goes on sale at 8:00 am and sneakerheads across the country are camping out overnight to get them.

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