"Shamate"(SMART), as a group of Chinese workers, exploded into the limelight in 2008 with their strange hairstyle and unique fonts, and have disappeared after only five years of existence. Everyone in China knows about them.The social identity of the SMARTs are that of workers (partly child labourers), second generation migrant workers, children left behind and migrant workers, but the urban elite and the intelligentsia refuse to understand the aesthetic and existential conditions of the lower classes.
The film shows how 'shamates' are involved in the three steps of industrial production: 'process-product-profit'. As a result of exploitative assembly line labour, they have developed a highly individualistic hairstyle subculture. This is in stark contrast to the standardised products they produce. With the globalisation of the economy, the products are relevant to our everyday lives. What's more, the salary they earn is only a small fraction of the benefits that capitalists receive.
Through my work, "aliens in the assembly line ", I want to try to interpret how the SMARTs were born and disappeared, about the exploitation of labour in the fashion industry, about the connection with each of us after the globalisation of the economy.
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杀马特，在2008年因其极具特点的发型引爆了人们的视线，仅存在了五年就消失了。在中国人人都知道他们，但城市精英和知识分子拒绝理解底层民众的审美和生存状况。
杀马特在中国是一个人尽皆知的群体。他们在2008年因为独特的发型和火星文字体赚足了大众猎奇的目光，却于5年后消失无形。杀马特的社会身份是工人（部分是童工），是农民工二代，是留守儿童，是外来务工人员。城市精英和知识分子拒绝理解其他阶级的审美逻辑和生存状况。
三段影片通过“process-product-profit”三个工业大生产的步骤，来展示杀马特是如何参与其中的。因为剥削性的流水线劳动，他们产生了极具个性的发型亚文化。这与他们所制造的标准统一的产品形成了鲜明的对比。随着经济全球化，他们所生产的产品也许正是我们日常所用。更重要的是，他们赚得的薪水只是资本家既得利益的九牛一毛。