At Sea (2007)

Directed by

Peter Hutton

Genre

documentary

Country

United States

Runtime

1h

Rating

7.1 of 10 from 16 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary follows a single container ship from its construction in South Korea across the Atlantic Ocean to its final beaching in Bangladesh. It shows the full cycle of the ship's life without narration or dialogue.

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What happens

At Sea is a 2007 American experimental documentary film directed by Peter Hutton. Shot on 16 mm film over the course of three years, it follows the "birth, life and death" of a container ship, from its construction in a South Korean dockyard to its travels on the Atlantic Ocean and eventual beaching in Bangladesh, where ship breakers labor for scrap. At Sea was voted the best avant-garde film of the past decade in a 2011 Film Comment poll. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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