Dead Slow Ahead

Dead Slow Ahead

74 mins | Drama, Documentary | Oct. 28, 2016

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 neo-capitalism. 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

74 mins | Drama, Documentary | Oct. 28, 2016

Dead Slow Ahead
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 neo-capitalism. 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.
IMDb rating 6.7
Producers Nanouk Films, Bocalupo Films, El Viaje Films
Original title Dead Slow Ahead
Directors Mauro Herce
Writers Manuel Muñoz Rivas, Mauro Herce

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