Director Jessica Kingdon’s feature-length debut, Ascension, is an image-driven, impressionistic portrait of Mainland China’s factories, workers, and consumers—and one of the most compelling documentaries of the year
. “I was brainstorming different factories to shoot in,” explains Jessica Kingdon, director of the documentary, about China’s industrial supply chain. “I thought about how China’s an innovator of A.I., and the first thing that popped up was ‘A.I. sex doll.’”
The New York–based filmmaker was drawn to China partly because of her heritage and the country’s drastic changes within mere decades. “A nation that used to be known as the world’s factory is now also one of the largest consumer markets in the world,” Kingdon says. “I’m interested in the philosophical question of the paradox of progress: what capitalism looks like, what progress really means. Seeing capitalism in a different context helps mirror it back to our own culture.
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