作品介绍(Work introduction)
CHAINA是一个近距离的对于茶叶制作的观察记录。在厦门茶叶进出口有限公司的茶园和工厂里进行拍摄,展现了在茶叶制作过程中涉及到的人们。本片记录了茶叶收获时中国传统的步骤:从用双手采摘茶叶,摇青,直到将茶叶送往大型工业化的工厂中。茶叶并不只是一个传统的饮品,而是在中华文化传承中不可或缺的部分,同时它也不断进行着创新。通过工人的视角,尤其是女工人的视角,这部纪录片解构了茶叶的制作流程,呈现了茶叶中除了制作流程之外的一些人和精神。、
A closer look at the tea production. Chaina enter on the factories and plantations of Xiamen Tea Import & Export Company, revealing the people involved at the process of tea making. Since the leaves harvest, the primary step of this long aged, Chinese and cultural inheritance, the film follows the hands that pick leaves, shake the bamboo made plates and operate the heavy machines from large scaled factories. The tea arise not only as tradition drink, but as something that is inherent and indispensable to China and keeps continuously adapting to its transformations. By the workers perspective, most of them women, the film deconstruct the production to build a portrait of what’s and who’s beside that millenary habit.