A groundbreaking immersive portrait of the contemporary commercial fishing industry. Filmed off the coast of New Bedford Massachusetts - at one time the whaling capital of the world as well as Melville's inspiration for 'Moby Dick';it is today the country's largest fishing port with over 500 ships sailing from its harbour every month. Leviathan follows one such vessel a hulking ground fish trawler into the surrounding murky black waters on a weeks-long fishing expedition. But instead of romanticizing the labour or partaking in the longstanding tradition of turning... fisher folk into images filmmakers Lucien Castiang-Taylor (Sweetgrass) and Verena Paravel (Foreign Parts) present a vivid almost-kaleidoscopic representation of the work the sea the machinery and the players both human and marine. Employing an arsenal of cameras that passed freely from film crew to ship crew; that swoop from below sea level to astonishing bird's-eye views the film that emerges is unlike anything that has been seen before. Entirely dialogue-free but mesmerizing and gripping throughout it is a cosmic portrait of one of mankind's oldest endeavours. [show more]
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Experimental abstract documentary about the commercial fishing industry directed by Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Verena Paravel. Using unconventional camerawork the film captures the day-to-day running of a fishing vessel by its crew while working off the coast of Massachusetts. What results is a blend of kaleidoscopic imagery showing the sea and man and how both forces collide in one of mankind's oldest traditions.
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