On Site is a moving image series rooted in senses of place, focusing on contemporary and historic artists’ cinema. The series draws from a diversity of works that commonly recruits cinematic form to attend enduring and ephemeral environments.

February 1, Doors 6:30 Screening at 7:00 PM

Free

At Sea
Peter Hutton
16mm, 2007 60 min

Peter Hutton drew on his years of experience as a merchant seaman to create this large-scale, compressed epic, voted the best avant-garde film of the preceding decade in a 2011 Film Comment poll. Shot in a series of steady, meticulously composed takes, At Sea follows a massive container ship from its construction in South Korea to its lifetime out on the water to its final dismantling in Bangladesh. Taken as a wordless critique of modern global capitalism, an elegiac reflection on the passing of time, or an exercise in pure sensory immersion, the film is an overwhelming experience, in keeping with its epigraph from Joseph Conrad: A man who is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea…. (NYFF, 2013)
Presented on 16mm

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