Ascension

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Ascension

Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature

Ascension is an impressionistic portrait of China’s industrial supply chain that reveals the country’s growing class divide through staggering observations of labor, consumerism and wealth. Director Jessica Kingdon structures the film in three parts, allowing the audience to ascend through the levels of the capitalist structure: workers running factory production, the middle class training for and selling to aspirational consumers, and the elites reveling in a new level of hedonistic enjoyment. In traveling up the rungs of China’s social ladder, we see how each level supports and makes possible the next while recognizing the contemporary “Chinese Dream” remains an elusive fantasy for most.

This film is part of the Global Watch: Crisis & Social Action series.



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