Media Anthropology film “The Bubble Maker”

2019


Short film

produced during the course „Ethnographic Media Practices II: The Politics of (In)visibility“,

taught by Sanderien Verstappen at the Anthropology Department of the University of Tübingen

My film is a story that happens in a bubble tea shop. The capitalist comes up with the idea of open a ‘hand-made bubble’ tea shop. Instead of running a regular bubble tea shop in which the bubbles can just be made with a productive machine, he hires a specific person — ‘the bubble maker ‘, to stand in front of the truck, making the bubbles by worker’s own hands to attract customers and to sell bubble tea at way higher price, and this conception ‘hand-made bubble tea’ is really deceptive to customers. The argument that I am trying to convey, is to make a reflection on the invisible surplus value, and the inequality issues about cheap labor force among developing countries.

2019年

媒体人类学电影《珍珠制造者》

“媒体人类学实践II：可见度的政治”课程 结课作业

图宾根大学人类学系Sanderien Verstappen教授指导

这是一个发生在珍珠奶茶店的故事。 资本家提出了开设“手工珍珠”奶茶店的想法。他并没有使用常规的机器去成批生产珍珠，而是雇用了一个特定的人-“珍珠制造者”站在售货卡车里，自己的双手搓制珍珠以吸引客户，并以更高的价格出售珍珠奶茶。“手工制作的珍珠奶茶味道更好”的概念对客户具有欺骗性。作品体现了对发展中国家中的血汗工厂、廉价劳动力、剩余价值等问题的反思。