Dispatches from Futureland
Short Film
Duration: 25:56
Year: 2015
Spoken: English
Dispatches from Futureland is a situational study of the inhuman scale and constructed spectacle of international industrial sites, and the theatrical spectacle of unionised demonstration against it. The film operates in the future orientated a-temporality and science fiction influenced aesthetic of capitalist futurism. Rotterdam has the largest port in Europe, carrying five hundred millions tonnes of cargo per year, while employing the labour of only two thousand four hundred workers, a loss of nearly 200,000 jobs in the last 40 years. In the delta of the Maas river a huge area of new land is under construction to house fully automated terminals, removing human bodies from the corridors of transit.