logisticsfilm

Great idea, thanks!

Since several of you have asked how to watch the movie, we spontaneously decided to stream the first 21 hours of Logistics on Twitch. Since it will soon be night here in Sweden, we will not be able to keep track of the stream. We're keeping our fingers crossed that it works. Unfortunately we will not be able to stream the entire film this time, but hope to do so later.

The stream is live now at https://www.twitch.tv/logisticsartproject

Since several of you have asked how to watch the movie, we spontaneously decided to stream the first 21 hours of Logistics on Twitch. Since it will soon be night here in Sweden, we will not be able to keep track of the stream. We're keeping our fingers crossed that it works. Unfortunately we will not be able to stream the entire film this time, but hope to do so later.

The stream is live now at https://www.twitch.tv/logisticsartproject

Youtube has commercials which we would like to avoid, but we had not considered twitch. Perhaps that's a good idea. We have livestreamed it before, but it's quite a commitment to keep a stream running 24/7 for 37 days.

Size and rights are definitely an aspect, but so is context. If we were to upload this to YouTube for example we imagine that the film would be interrupted by commercial breaks every now and then. Plus there is the 12 hour length limit.

We did livestream it on Youtube back when you could opt out of commercials. And in a way a livestream is our preferred way of showing the work but doing so from home forces us to make sure the stream is running 24/7 for 37 days...

Some of the hardest things were: - Gathering facts about the product, where it was manufactured and what its shipping routes were. - Getting permission to film during the trip. - Finding a technical solution (in 2011) that could record continuously during the entire journey of the container ship.

It was comparatively easy to design the concept, it then took a very long time to implement.

We are not professional filmmakers, but something that helped us was to be stubborn.

We couldn't figure out what sound to have, so we opted for silence. We also hoped it would be more contemplative without sound.

Yes he is aware that the camera is recording, he needed to wash the windows on the bridge.

oh nice! didn't know about this book.

Sounds great! Our email is in our profile.

So far we have chosen not to because we consider the core of the work to be the continuous length of the film. A torrent would enable timelapses and short versions. But we will think about it.

unfortunately its not for sale, but we are actively looking for a place to host it as a VOD again. Send us an email if you want to be notified if and when its available again. (email in profile)

Right now only at the library at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. We had the full film up on Vimeo for a year but it was too expensive too keep it there. Its hard to find a good cheap place to host a movie of this length.

Absolutely, the best thing would have been to actually follow a specific, unique product. We tried for one and a half years to get the company where we bought the pedometer to cooperate with us. It was impossible. But we managed to get the company to tell us which route they used in most cases.

Yeah its unfathomable, we were inspired by an article in the German magazine Der Spiegel about the components of an electric toothbrush. Our dream was to follow the components of the pedometer all the way back to the mines, however, we haven't done so yet.

Actually we did not create this, its made out of 2 minute clips we hosted on our web page a few years back. The original film has no sound.

We had the film on Vimeo for a year but had to take it down due to the cost of Vimeo hosting.

The original film is around 10TB of mpeg2 1080p 25mbit/sec 25 frames per second.

We later transcoded to h264, it now clocks in at about 2TB.

Hi there, creators of Logistics here. Super happy to see this featured on Hacker News.

Feel free to ask us anything!

official site is logisticsartproject.com