English

Autonomous Archiving

As a rule, Allan Sekula does not often let images go unexamined. And, as with all rules, exceptions can be found. One exception occurs about half an hour into the film he made with Noël Burch, The Forgotten Space (2010), in the course of a sequence at the Port of Los Angeles/Long Beach that opens the section called “Mud and Sun.”[1] The sequence is designed to take the film to the motif of the container as Pandora’s Box and the scene from Robert Aldrich’s Kiss Me Deadly (1955) to which Sekula and Burch return at the conclusion of the film. But on the way through the interstices of the port, The Forgotten Space shows us some unusual images: not simply images of the port but images produced by it as part of its everyday operation

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