Useless (2008)
Observations of three varied corners of China’s garment industry: workers in a large-scale production line factory; a designer who rallies against the mass-machine-production of clothes and has created the eponymous hand-made collection called ‘Useless’ (Wuyong) for Paris Fashion Week; and finally the simple life of increasingly out-of-work tailors in small town Fengdang.
Director: Jia Zhangke
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Ma Ke as Self |
| Directing | Jia Zhangke | Director |
| Camera | Jia Zhangke | Director of Photography |
| Production | Chow Keung | Executive Producer |
| Production | Mao Jihong | Executive Producer |
| Production | Kang Jianmin | Executive Producer |
| Production | Nelson Yu Lik-wai | Producer |
| Production | Zhang Dong | Associate Producer |
| Production | Shu Lei | Associate Producer |
| Production | Ma Ning | Associate Producer |
| Camera | Nelson Yu Lik-wai | Director of Photography |
| Sound | Zhang Yang | Sound Designer |
| Sound | Lim Giong | Original Music Composer |
| Editing | Zhang Jia | Editor |
| Crew | Lin Xudong | Creative Consultant |
| Directing | Han Jie | Assistant Director |
| Directing | Chen Rui | Assistant Director |
| Camera | Tian Li | Camera Operator |
| Camera | Kubbie Tsoi | Assistant Camera |
| Camera | Ge Yinghan | Assistant Camera |
| Lighting | Zhang Guang Yu | Gaffer |
| Sound | Ren Jiajia | Location Sound Recordist |
| Sound | Si Zhonglin | Boom Operator |
| Sound | Liu Tao | Boom Operator |
| Sound | Wu Jianxun | Boom Operator |
| Sound | Shen Jianqin | Sound Engineer |
| Editing | Chen Pei | Assistant Editor |
| Editing | Duan Wei | Assistant Editor |
| Production | Zhang Dong | Production Manager |
| Production | Xu Youping | Location Manager |
| Production | Zhao Dengxin | Location Manager |
| Production | Julien Selleron | Location Manager |
| Production | Ma Hemin | Production Assistant |
| Crew | Shao Jingguo | Driver |
| Crew | Li Shangqin | Driver |
| Crew | Lin Ying | Driver |
| Crew | Mo Xianrong | Driver |
| Crew | Pan Cheng | Driver |
| Crew | Fan Jinhua | Driver |
| Production | Eva Lam | Production Coordinator |
| Production | Casper Leung | Production Coordinator |
| Camera | Han Jie | Still Photographer |
| Camera | Shu Lei | Still Photographer |
| Camera | Enrico Dagnino | Still Photographer |
| Production | Dai Yingying | Publicist |
| Crew | Jia Wenyu | Public Relations |
| Production | Zhao Tao | Producer |
