The Forgotten Space

The Forgotten Space

The Forgotten Space, 2010

Austria, Holland, DVD, Color, 112’

Director: Allan Sekula & Noel Burch

Language: Korean, Dutch, Spanish, English

Screening: Thursday April 4, 17:00

The Forgotten Space follows container cargo aboard ships, barges, trains and trucks, listening to workers, engineers, planners, politicians, and those marginalized by the global transport system. We visit displaced farmers and villagers in Holland and Belgium, underpaid truck drivers in Los Angeles, seafarers aboard mega-ships shuttling between Asia and Europe, and factory workers in China, whose low wages are the fragile key to the whole puzzle. And in Bilbao, we discover the most sophisticated expression of the belief that the maritime economy, and the sea itself is somehow obsolete.

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