15 Hours

Wang Bing
15 Hours, 2017
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The film is shot in a centralized garment processing facility consisting of 18 000 small production units employing a total of around 300 000 migrant workers. They start work every day at 8 am, break from 11 to 12 for a lunch of beef and rice, then work from 12 to 5, and again after dinner through to 11 pm. They usually also work on Saturdays and Sundays. Pay is on a piecework basis. Every worker, like every machine, works at top speed. We plan to shoot the entire 15-hr film on a digital HD camera as a single long take, starting at 8 am on the first day and following one group of workers until they clock off at night, faithfully recording their life and work through this one day.