"Director: Lucien Castaing Taylor"

• Leviathan | Blu Ray | (09/12/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  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.

• Leviathan | DVD | (09/12/2013) from £5.99   |  Saving you £9.00 (60.00%)   |  RRP £14.99

  One of the most highly anticipated films of the year from the directors of Sweetgrass and Foreign Parts; Leviathan is a thrilling immersive documentary that takes you deep inside the dangerous world of commercial fishing. Set aboard a hulking fishing vessel as it navigates the treacherous waves off the New England coast-the very waters that once inspired Moby Dick- the film captures the harsh unforgiving world of the fishermen in starkly haunting yet beautiful detail. Employing an arsenal of cameras that pass freely from film crew to ship crew and swoop from below sea level to astonishing bird's-eye views Leviathan is unlike anything you have ever seen; a purely visceral cinematic experience.

• Sweetgrass | DVD | (06/06/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  An unsentimental elegy to the American West Sweetgrass follows the last modern-day cowboys to lead their flocks of sheep up into Montana's breathtaking and often dangerous Absaroka-Beartooth mountains for summer pasture. This astonishingly beautiful yet unsparing film reveals a world in which nature and culture animals and humans vulnerability and violence are all intimately meshed.