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Commodity City

Jessica Kingdon · USA · Documentary · 10 min · 25K views

Directed by Jessica Kingdon · 2017

An observational journey through China's Yiwu Market, the world's largest wholesale consumer-goods mall, where vendors pass their days among endless stalls of phone cases, plastic flowers and trinkets.

A hypnotic, quietly absurd tour of the market that supplies the world's trinkets, from the director of Ascension.

For her latest film, Chinese-American director Jessica Kingdon takes us on a tour of China’s Yiwu Market—the largest wholesale consumer goods mall in the world. This award-winning work, which screened at Slamdance Film F

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