SUPERNUMERARIES
A Film by Anja Kirschner
 
 
Titel: Supernumeraries  
Director: Anja Kirschner  
Language: English  
Duration: 00:20:49:17  
Distribution Format: DVD  
Production Date: September 2003  
Production Format: Digital Video  
     
  "Supernumeraries" was shot on board an operating container vessel and on the colonial tea clipper 'Cutty Sark' in summer 2003.
The film collapses the romanticised portrayal of life at sea into an account of the precarious contemporary conditions of maritime law, statelessness and labour exploitation.
It centres on the crisis of action precipitated by the discovery of a stowaway on board a cargo vessel, taking the captain to the limit point of his sovereignty.
 
     
  Produced with the financial assistance of the Arts Council England.  
     
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