DEAD SLOW AHEAD
by Mauro Herce
synopsis
A freighter crosses the ocean. The hypnotic rhythm of its gears reveals the continuous movement of machinery devouring its workers: the last gestures of the old sailors’ trade disappearing under the mechanic and impersonal pace of 21st century neocapitalism. Perhaps it is a boat adrift, or maybe just the last example of an endangered species. Although we don’t know it, the engines are still running, unstoppable. Dead Slow Ahead is a feverish and hallucinatory portrait of machinery that has overwhelmed the men living in it: they no longer know if they are operating the machine or if it is the other way round.
international title: | Dead Slow Ahead |
original title: | Dead Slow Ahead |
country: | Spain, France |
sales agent: | Canary Islands Connection |
year: | 2015 |
genre: | documentary |
directed by: | Mauro Herce |
film run: | 74' |
screenplay: | Mauro Herce, Manuel Muñoz Rivas |
cinematography by: | Mauro Herce |
film editing: | Manuel Muñoz Rivas |
producer: | José Ángel Alayón |
production: | Nanouk Films, El Viaje Films, Bocalupo films |
distributor: | CineBinario Films, Potemkine Films |