The White Castle

Part of Johan van der Keukens NorthSouth series The White Castle focuses on the impact of the West on the underclass on the concrete realities of their daily life and on the way their existence is isolated and frustrated Interweaving images of the Spanish tourist mecca of Formentera a community center in Columbus Ohio and factories in the Netherlands the film vividly illustrates the fragmented alienated lives that the market economy produces and chillingly portrays what van der Keuken saw as a conveyor belt that runs across the world