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Ascension
Directed by
Jessica Kingdon
Produced by Jessica Kingdon, Kira Simon-Kennedy, and Nathan Truesdell
Produced by Jessica Kingdon, Kira Simon-Kennedy, and Nathan Truesdell
Cinematography:
Jessica Kingdon and Nathan Truesdell
Editing: Jessica Kingdon
Music: Dan Deacon
Editing: Jessica Kingdon
Music: Dan Deacon
Runtime:
97 min
Release Date: 15 November 2021
Aspect Ratio: 1.85 : 1
Color: Color
Release Date: 15 November 2021
Aspect Ratio: 1.85 : 1
Color: Color
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Kingdon’s observational documentary bears witness to the transition of China's industrial working-class from factory workers to personal attendants to online influencers to consumers in their own right. Lacks the patience of a Fred Wiseman film and the poetry of a movie like RaMell Ross’s Hale County This Morning, This Evening, but the humanity of these masses of individuals allowing their futures and themselves to be shaped by capitalism comes through in surprising ways.