Scrap Vessel

General Information

Author/Creator
Byrne, Jason, director.
Language
English.
Published
United States : Plante, Mike, 2009.
Physical Description
DVD-ROM (52 min.)
Digital ver. identifier
HU_OSA_00003622

Contents/Summary

Summary
In 1973 the freighter Bulk Promotor is built by Norway to transport coal and iron ore throughout Northern Europe. In 1985 the ship is sold to mainland China. Renamed Hupohai, it is used to distribute coal along the Yangtze River. Thirty-two years old later, the vessel, now called the Hari Funafuti, sails from Singapore to Bangladesh to be gutted and dismantled for scrap. "Scrap Vessel" documents this last trip of the Hari Funafuti. Byrne, along with fellow cameraman Theron Patterson, explore the soon-to-be-ghost ship from stem to stern. With a languid atmosphere. using the massive ship like a landscape, the film explores what is found inside the ship from its communist past, onwards through an unseen attack by pirates and onto a distant beach and glowing iron foundry, until the ship becomes a phantom.

Subjects

Genre
Documentary films

Bibliographic Information

Note
Verzio Film Festival Submission
Library Special Collection
Verzio Film Festival Submission

Holdings

Item Type Current Location Call Number Status Shelving Location Public Note
DVD-ROMOSA Film LibraryFL Record 1962Available--
Digital filmOSA Film LibraryFL Record 1962
(HU_OSA_00003622.mp4)
AvailableAccess Copy, MP4 format