At Sea

Not to be confused with At the Sea.

At Sea
Directed byPeter Hutton
Release date
  • 2007 (2007)
Running time
60 minutes
CountryUnited States

At Sea is a 2007 American experimental documentary film directed by Peter Hutton. Shot on 16 mm film over the course of three years, it follows the "birth, life and death"[1] of a container ship, from its construction in a South Korean dockyard to its travels on the Atlantic Ocean and eventual beaching in Bangladesh, where ship breakers labor for scrap.[2][3]

At Sea was voted the best avant-garde film of the past decade in a 2011 Film Comment poll.[4]

Production

Filmmaker and former merchant seaman Peter Hutton conceived At Sea after completing the 2004 short film Skagafjördur, which was shot in Iceland.[4][5] In 2004, Hutton visited Chittagong, Bangladesh, with the idea of making a film about ship breaking, but he was only able to shoot for "a couple of hours".[5] The following summer, Hutton traveled to Geoje, South Korea, where he gathered footage at the Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) shipyard; and in 2006, Hutton filmed the ship's voyage on the Atlantic Ocean.[5] During this time, Hutton was considering titling the film How the World Works.[5]

References

  1. ^ McDonald, Scott. "At Sea". HarvardFilmArchive.org. Harvard Film Archive. Archived from the original on April 23, 2025. Retrieved February 20, 2026.
  2. ^ Vishnevetsky, Ignatiy (June 27, 2016). "R.I.P. Peter Hutton, filmmaker of landscapes and seas". The A. V. Club. Archived from the original on September 20, 2021. Retrieved February 20, 2026.
  3. ^ "At Sea By Peter Hutton". PEM.org. Peabody Essex Museum. Archived from the original on June 21, 2021. Retrieved February 20, 2026.
  4. ^ a b "At Sea + Skagafjördur". Filmlinc.org. Film at Lincoln Center. Archived from the original on February 23, 2024. Retrieved February 20, 2026.
  5. ^ a b c d MacDonald, Scott (2009). Adventures of Perception: Cinema as Exploration. University of California Press. pp. 232–233. ISBN 978-0520258549.
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