Kinloss

300 metres long 85000 tonnes 6200 containers of cargo The Kinloss is one of the largest ships in the Danish Maersk Lines fleet of tankers which traverses the worlds oceans and handles the global circulation of goods The filmmaker shot the tons of steel moving between Busan and Shenzhen as both a wasteland inhabited by a few human beings and an industrial monument to the cold beauty and helplessness of the advanced phase of consumer capitalism Fragments of cabins decks engines massive ropes and breathtaking views of the sea complement the depersonalised narratives of a cosmopolitan lineup of employees of the worlds largest transport corporations