Transatlantique
Félix Dufour-Laperrière
Kanada 2014
72 min – HD –
ohne Dialog
B+S: Félix Dufour-Laperrière
K: Félix Dufour-Laperrière,
Nicolas Dufour-Laperrière –
SD: Olivier
Calvert – P: Nicolas
Dufour-
Laperrière – V: Light
Cone
Thirty days at
sea surrounded by the powerful, majestic waves of the Atlantic
Ocean that seem to go on forever. Thirty days in the daily lives
of a cargo ship crew that capture some of the hidden beauty of
this capricious maritime reality. Transatlantic is a
documentary essay that offers itself up like a prayer, full of
mystery and languor. The film is strangely and secretly hopeful.
In the eyes of the sailors we see both their deep love of life at
sea and their exhaustion in the face of the intensity of this
cruel and unforgiving environment. The daily and nightly rituals
of work and mealtimes trace the intimate, subjective and often
silent existence of these men who live at sea, enclosed in the
middle of the infinite ocean. Machinery rumbles, waves pound the
bow, the hull cracks and squeaks under the pressure of a storm.
The immense vastness of the ocean surrounds them in every
direction. Officers and sailors work and play, but also dream. The
ship is both a metaphor and a microcosm: an island of men in the
midst of the great unknown.
Trailer - Transatlantique from La Distributrice on Vimeo.
sunday 9 oct 10.30 p.m. werkstattkino