The Forgotten Space

The Forgotten Space

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Status

Released

Release Date

Dec 31, 2010

Runtime

1h 52m

Genres

Documentary

User Score

54%

Original Title

The Forgotten Space

Production Companies

WilDart Film

Director

Allan Sekula

Description

Details the catastrophic effects globalization has wrought on the ship, truck and train industries. We visit displaced farmers and villagers in Holland and Belgium, underpaid truck drivers in Los Angeles, seafarers aboard mega-ships shuttling between Asia and Europe, and factory workers in China, whose low wages are the fragile key to the whole puzzle. At a moment when collective bargaining rights are under attack in the United States, and China continues to bow to foreign pressures to prevent such rights from being granted at all, this film asks: Is capitalism the Trojan horse that turns on its inventors?