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Useless Series: The 45th New York Film Festival [Sep 28 - Oct 14 2007] Director: Jia Zhangke, Country: Hong Kong, Release: 2007, Runtime: 80 Jia Zhangke’s new documentary continually re-defines itself as it proceeds, from modern clothing factories to designer shops to a Parisian fashion installation of the work of vanguard designer Ma Ke, to Northern Chinese mining country and the testaments of local tailors, keenly aware of their own expendable role in a world of mass-produced goods. Useless is not an illustration of a thesis, but a work of exploration - a conversation between Jia and the modern world, which begins by examining what we wear and ends by addressing who we are, with the greatest eloquence. Preceded by Franz Kafka’s A Country Doctor, an inventive and perceptive animé rendering of Kafka’s classic tale. Koji Yamamura, Japan, 2007, 20 min.

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