Various elements characterize the port area: built structures, quays, basins, canals, locks… lifting and transport systems, cranes, gantries, trolleys, straddle carriers… container storage areas, tanks, and warehouses.
These components of the port landscape, at different scales, can be found in all the world's major ports, such as Rotterdam (MAAS OBSERVATION) or Los Angeles (PORT NOIR).
This port area is the workplace of dockworkers, the workers who load and unload goods, whose profession has evolved alongside maritime transport. While their working conditions in the 1950s (LONG LIVE THE DOCKWORKERS) are very different from those of today, some of their concerns resonate remarkably with recent events.
In conjunction with the exhibition "Ports in View" presented at the MuMa from November 8, 2025 to April 5, 2026.
Programme :
- Karel Doing & Greg Pope, MAAS OBSERVATION, 1997 / 16mm / b&w / sound / 11'00
- Christophe Guérin, LE HAVRE : PORT, 2008 / Super8 numérisé / b&w / sound / 6'00
- Laura Kraning, PORT NOIR, 2014 / HD / b&w / sound /11'00
- Viktor Brim, MONOSCAPE, 2017 / 2K / color / sound / 16'41
- Robert Ménégoz, VIVENT LES DOCKERS, 1951 / 35 mm on digital / b&w / sound /15'00
