Is this our last chance?
The Forgotten Space
Salt Beyoğlu
March 23, 2025 16.00
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Still from The Forgotten Space (2010)
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Walk-in Cinema
The Forgotten Space (2010)
Directors: Allan Sekula, Noël Burch
112 minutes
English, Dutch, Spanish, Chinese, Korean, Bahasa Indonesian; Turkish and English subtitles
The Forgotten Space follows container cargo aboard ships, barges, trains, and trucks—a mode of transport that has extensively reshaped global logistics and port cities since the 1950s. Filmmakers Allan Sekula and Noël Burch engage with workers, engineers, planners, politicians, and those marginalized by the global transport system, visiting displaced farmers in Holland and Belgium, underpaid truck drivers in Los Angeles, and low-wage factory workers in China. And in Bilbao, they find the most sophisticated expression of the belief that the maritime economy, and the sea itself, is becoming obsolete in the digital age of trade.
Highlighting the often-overlooked human cost of global trade, The Forgotten Space challenges the illusion of frictionless commerce in a world still deeply reliant on physical transport. The film won the Special Jury Prize in the Orizzonti section of the 67th Venice Film Festival.
Salt’s Is this our last chance? program is supported by its founder, Garanti BBVA, and is open to everyone.
The Forgotten Space (2010)
Directors: Allan Sekula, Noël Burch
112 minutes
English, Dutch, Spanish, Chinese, Korean, Bahasa Indonesian; Turkish and English subtitles
The Forgotten Space follows container cargo aboard ships, barges, trains, and trucks—a mode of transport that has extensively reshaped global logistics and port cities since the 1950s. Filmmakers Allan Sekula and Noël Burch engage with workers, engineers, planners, politicians, and those marginalized by the global transport system, visiting displaced farmers in Holland and Belgium, underpaid truck drivers in Los Angeles, and low-wage factory workers in China. And in Bilbao, they find the most sophisticated expression of the belief that the maritime economy, and the sea itself, is becoming obsolete in the digital age of trade.
Highlighting the often-overlooked human cost of global trade, The Forgotten Space challenges the illusion of frictionless commerce in a world still deeply reliant on physical transport. The film won the Special Jury Prize in the Orizzonti section of the 67th Venice Film Festival.
Salt’s Is this our last chance? program is supported by its founder, Garanti BBVA, and is open to everyone.
