The
Forgotten Space (2010/Icarus DVD)
Picture:
B- Sound: B- Extras: C Film: B
The
documentary film, The Forgotten Space (2010) is a fascinating
study about jobs that you may or may not think much about but are
very necessarily to continue the flow of things in our demanding
commercial society. Expertly directed by Allan Sekula and Noel
Burch, this informative essay is a dismal look at economy that may
not be mainstream enough to get a huge audience but will thrill those
who think on the subject.
The
film follows container cargo aboard ships, barges, trains and trucks,
listening to workers, engineers, planners, politicians, and those
marginalized by the global transport system. Displaced farmers and
villagers in Holland and Belgium are visited, 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.
Presented
in standard definition with a widescreen aspect ratio of 1.85:1 and a
lossy Dolby Digital 5.1 track, the film looks and fine sounds on DVD
but doesn't reach the detail of high definition.
Extras
include a Gallery of Photographs by Allan Sekula and a 12 page
booklet with easy and full color stills from the film.
For
more info on the film visit: www.theforgottenspace.net
-
James Harland Lockhart V
www.facebook.com/jhl5films
