Cast & Crew

Director, Producer:
Jason Byrne

Producer:
Mike Plante

Camera:
Jason Byrne
Theron Patterson

Location Sound:
Theron Patterson

Music:
Albert Ortega

Sound Mix:
Mark Wheaton

Editing:
Stephanie Kern
Jason Byrne

Chinese Film Montage:
Caroline Key

  • About

    2009, 51 min, Color/B&W
    shot on 16mm and video

    SCRAP VESSEL documents the last trip of the Hari Funafuti (formerly the Bulk Promotor and Hupohai), a cargo ship on its way to be scrapped. With a languid atmosphere using the massive ship like a landscape, the film explores what is found inside the ship from it’s communist past, onwards through an unseen attack by pirates and onto a distant beach and glowing ironworks factory, until the ship becomes a phantom.

    Made at CalArts
    2009