About the Event
Ascension
Directed by Jessica Kingdon
(US, 2021, 97 min.)
Friday October 7 | 7:00 PM
Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary this past year, Jessica Kingdon’s film is about China. Not the China of the past, but the aspirational China of the future, as the people she films toil in factories, attend self-help seminars and work on their brands. “A revelatory film. Shockingly incisive. As engrossing as it’s alarming, the documentary flows with a stream of consciousness about the illusion of the ‘Chinese Dream.’”— RogerEbert.com. “An enthralling documentary that spellbindingly heads into myriad corners of China’s increasingly stratified economic classes… Everything we use every day is the product of someone else’s labor. Cellphones and computers, water bottles and plastic cutlery, soap dispensers and blankets are all items in one gigantic, interconnected chain of global capitalism that the documentary Ascension explores with curiosity, candor and criticism.”— LA Times
Discounted parking at Founder’s Court. $5 flat rate, credit card required.
