The Assembly Line films by Li Xiaofei deliberately mix artistic and documentary language. Images of the people and machines are constantly being juxtaposed, restructured, transformed and rebuilt into a provocative movement. The work investigates a number of interconnected problematics including the relationship between labour and management; people and machine, factory as well as the individual's relationship to collectivity. A Packet of Salt is significant in Li Xiaofei's work since it develops both a poetic and critical vein that has been less evident in his previous work
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