At Sea

At Sea (2007)

Three segments depicting the life cycle of a freighter boat.

Date of release
2007-09-07
TMDB
7.1 / 10 (16)
Runtime
1h 0m
Genres
Documentary
Director
Peter Hutton

Interesting facts

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.

Production

Filmmaker and former merchant seaman Peter Hutton conceived At Sea after completing the 2004 short film Skagafjördur, which was shot in Iceland. In 2004, Hutton visited Chittagong, Bangladesh, with the idea of making a film about ship breaking, but he was only able to shoot for "a couple of hours".

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