The word panchão was first heard in Macao. From the Chinese pan-tcheong or pau-tcheong, dictionaries define it as a Macanese regionalism also known as China cracker. Who inhabits the ancient IEC Long firecracker factory?
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As a decades-old state-run aeronautics munitions factory in downtown Chengdu, China is being torn down for the construction of the titular luxury apar...
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The concept of machine-made knit was known as early as the 1850s, but it was only during the 1920s that the quality of the material had improved. When...
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MANUFACTURED LANDSCAPES is the striking new documentary on the world and work of renowned artist Edward Burtynsky. Internationally acclaimed for his l...
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Concerning Violence is based on newly discovered, powerful archival material documenting the most daring moments in the struggle for liberation in the...
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An illuminating look inside the lives of the Grucci family, whose Long Island-based fireworks business has been lighting up night skies around the wor...
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A three-part film by Cao Fei. Part one, 'Imagination of Product', shows workers and machines at the OSRAM lightbulb factory in China's Pearl River De...
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A film about fireworks, the people who make them and the cultures behind them across the globe.
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A cinema verite study of the world of the blue-collar worker and the economic and psychological bind in which he is caught.
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On the Kainai (Blood) First Nations Reserve, near Cardston, Alberta, a hopeful new development in Indigenous enterprise. Once rulers of the western pl...
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A camera on an overhead crane travels down a large, long aisle where men are shown working on large machinery on either side. Carts carrying equipment...
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Megacities is a documentary about the slums of five different metropolitan cities.
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Working men and women leave through the main gate of the Lumière factory in Lyon, France. Filmed on 22 March 1895, it is often referred to as the firs...