Re: [Railroad Workers United: 3340]] The Forgotten Space: Film

[Pablo Oliva]

looks very interesting, we'll keep this one on the shelf of possibilities

On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 8:57 PM, Paul Jenvey <paul....@gmail.com> wrote:

A couple people have said theyd liek to do more film screenings...  I thought I'd pass this along, it came off my railroad workers listserv...

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From: Jonathan Flanders <jonathan...@verizon.net>
Date: Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 7:53 PM
Subject: [Railroad Workers United: 3340]] The Forgotten Space: Film
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If you think of Wall Street as capitalism's symbolic headquarters,
filmmakers Allan Sekula and Noël Burch more or less show us in The
Forgotten Space how the sea is capitalism's global trading floor writ
large. For as much attention as Wall Street gets, the global shipping
trade is responsible for the exchange of 90% of the world's goods, but
since it operates at sea it exists "out of sight, out of mind." By
focusing mostly on this invisible maritime sector of world trade, Sekula
and Burch expose the invisible lives of cheap labor needed to ship these
goods and how capitalism runs on people like oil. The film's
centerpiece, and most recurrent visual, is the 1950s American invention
that has made so much of this possible and that Sekula, in his overtly
Marxist narration, compares to resembling dollars in a gangster's
briefcase: cargo containers. full review:

http://www.slantmagazine.com/film/review/the-forgotten-space/6048

film trailer:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=rY0ZSlhoKiY



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