Lottery of the Sea (2006)

Iconoclast photographer and documentarian Allan Sekula unfolds a series of variations shot in the Netherlands Spain Greece Japan and other maritime countries around two of his major obsessions globalization and the sea In this rumination on the sea as a primordial source of sublimity Sekula explores a matrix of narrativesGreek myths American movies and stories of longshoremen lost sailors and displaced populationsand rejects on the globalizing effects of Adam Smiths notion of the seafaring life as a form of gambling