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Logistics
2012 · Film · documentary · 999 min
Directed by Erika Magnusson, Daniel Andersson
Logistics or Logistics Art Project is an experimental art film. At 51,420 minutes (857 hours or 35 days and 17 hours), it is the longest movie ever made. A 37 day-long road movie in the true sense of the meaning. The work is about Time and Consumption. It brings to the fore what is often forgotten in our digital, ostensibly fast-paced world: the slow, physical freight transportation that underpins our economic reality.
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There's also a bunch of videos of Lærdalstunnelen (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A6rdal_Tunnel) on youtube
And then there's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logistics_(film)
It lasts 5 weeks (51,420 min):
> In 2008, Erika Magnusson and Daniel Andersson asked themselves where modern electronic gadgets come from. They conceived the idea to follow the production cycle of a pedometer in reverse chronological order from end sales back to its origin and manufacture. The route of the journey commenced in Stockholm, then proceeded through Insjön, Gothenburg, Bremerhaven, Rotterdam, Algeciras, Málaga, and finished in Shenzhen at the manufacturer in Bao'an.
> The project was filmed in real time during a trip to and in locations at a factory, following the route of the product's manufacture from the store in Stockholm where it was purchased to the factory in China where it was manufactured
Here's a 72 minute edit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYFG0xP12yE
See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32452372
Someone today talked about "artful ambiguity" in reference to Marxism (for the Logistics movie). If capital-exploits-workers is what you believe in, then you will see it everywhere. But it's thin and unsatisfying gruel. Life is more than politics.
I deliberately pick a left-wing magazine, The Atlantic [1], for this. If anyone would apply a socialist rubric to Severance, it's them. Yet the words "capital", "Marx" and "socialist" don't even appear in it.
[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2022/02/severance-makes-workplace-eerily-dystopian/622883/