Event
ByDesign 2023 A Marble Travelogue [In-Person Only]
In-person only: Mar. 18 at 4pm
$14 General Admission
$10 Student/Child/Senior
$7 Member
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Sean Wang
Netherlands, Hong Kong, France & Greece
2021
1h 39m
Festival - ByDesign Festival 2023 [Hybrid]
About
(Sean Wang, Netherlands, Hong Kong, France & Greece, 2021, 99 min, in Greek, Chinese & French with English subtitles)
Blocks of white marble from a Greek quarry are shipped to China, where sculptors carve them into Hellenistic-style statues and columns. The leftover grit is made into fridge magnets and other souvenirs, which are sent back to Europe and then sold to Chinese tourists.
Along this cyclical production chain, we meet several key characters: the Chinese businessman who has taken over a Greek marble quarry, workers and their children in a souvenir factory in Quanzhou, and a French marble merchant in China. Chinese-speaking twin daughters of a Greek real estate giant accompany their father on business trips to China, acting as cultural ambassadors.
With wry humor, A Marble Travelogue captures the life cycle of a capitalist product: from raw material and capital to production, wholesale and retail. With a seductive visual style, the film explores the marble markets complex connections and connotations, from the perspective both of economics and class.
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LocationNorthwest Film Forum (View)
1515 12th Ave.
Seattle, WA 98122
United States
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