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Logbook

2019
two-channel video work, 12:24 min
HD
English, French

editor: Inka Lahti
sound designer: Eero Pulkkinen
camera: Emilia Rüf
directors: Emilia Rüf and Tinja Ruusuvuori


Where movement of people is restrained, goods can travel more freely than ever. The sound of karaoke drifts out from the inside of an enormous container ship. Logbook notes of longing and sympathy felt by seafarers towards migrants.




We filmed seafarers at a sailors’ club in Hamburg, on board a freighter in the Mediterranean and in the city of Saint-Louis in Senegal. We wanted to find out what seafarers working in freight dream of and how their dreams enable them to understand migrants’ need to leave their home country.