Katarina Jazbec

Encounters of tattooed port workers, poetic movement and stowaway animals in the vast automated expanse of the Rotterdam harbour.

Before container-ships leave port, lashers secure the containers using heavy metal bars. They are the last port workers to do such dangerous jobs surrounded by self-driven vehicles and remotely operated cranes. At night shifts, while they wait for a ship, each body tells its own story: from grieving for a colleague who died on the job to just keep going. Stowaway animals appear as visions of a more natural world.