China Blue

The documentary is about three young girls who leave their homes in rural China to come and work at a factory making blue jeans. The camera records the dormitory, the shifts and the days of payment; how much they work and what they earn is seen not through numbers but from inside the day. The film does not take up globalisation as an abstract argument but shows it inside a single factory. The account does not present the girls as victims; it gives their joking, their letters and their own plans as well. The distance between where the order comes from and where the product is sold is the film’s real subject. The view of the factory management is recorded too. Micha X. Peled’s eighty six minute documentary was completed in 2011.