From left to right, a barge full of waste crosses the screen. From bottom to top, waves gather—traces, perhaps, of a wasted body. A ship is burning in the Port of Amsterdam. Fingers tap screens to tell friends: “It smells like burnt toast.”

“On the other hand,” someone reads in a newly translated classic, “it disrupts the metabolizing that goes on between human beings and the earth,” and wonders what “it” is—and how they might see it.

Scenes from a film called 'capture' moves through industrial ports, 19th-century physiological experiments, and digital interfaces in search of sites where movement and metabolism have become forms through which life and labor are abstracted into data and value.