Taking the meaning of slow cinema to its extreme at a runtime of 37 days and nights, LOGISTICS is as banal, unfathomable, and sublime to comprehend as global trade itself. The film outlines the reverse journey of a pedometer, from a warehouse in Sweden to a factory in China, the bulk of which is captured over a month from a fixed angle aboard the cargo vessel Elly Maersk –a member of the largest class of ships at the time of shooting. This raw real time transit is, of course, impossible to fully intake in a single sitting, or to appreciate as a lone spectator.

To screen LOGISTICS in any context requires an exercise of logistics itself, and thanks to the generosity and support of the filmmakers, Spectacle will showcase the film from a continuous stream on our website, beginning on July 1st at 6:30pm and ending on August 5th.

You will have the opportunity to watch Elly Maersk’s two-day stoppage in Spain due to a dock workers’ strike and the Arab Spring, its subsequent hours-long passage through the Suez Canal, and many more moments numbly bland and staggeringly beautiful. We encourage you to do so alongside eating, bathing, commuting, working, shitting, and any other activities you may think of. Please use the stream’s chat feature to make new friends and catch them up on anything they may have missed.

On Friday, July 26th at 7:30pm, scholar and foremost LOGISTICS expert Kyle Stine will visit the theater for a free lecture and conversation as the stream plays on screen. Stine will illuminate the dramatic stories behind the film’s production and its deeper implications regarding the limits of human spectatorship and cinema’s relation to supply chains.