At Sea, Peter Hutton, 2007

Renowned for his exquisitely photographed land and cityscapes, Peter Hutton s latest film is an epic story of the birth, life, and death of the modern container ship. Shot over a period of three years, At Sea opens on a hypermodern South Korean shipyard, where supertankers loom over the workers who build them, then journeys through the swells and storms of the North Atlantic, and closes on a maritime grave in Bangladesh where ship breakers scrap the beached leviathans piece by piece under medieval conditions. Beautifully shot and keenly observed, Hutton s film showcases the environmental and human dramas that play out in the life cycle of this invisible engine of globalization and modernday Noah s Ark. i own nothing