Leviathan

This True Vision Award honoree is operatic, immersive filmmaking that conveys, with full sensory overload, life on a commercial fishing boat.

Director: Lucien Castaing-Taylor & Verena Paravel

Runtime: 1:27

In-person: co-directors Lucien Castaing-Taylor & V̩r̩na Paravel

Fest Year: 2013

It begins with bubbles. Bubbles and darkness and a swell of sound. And then the camera is rising up and breaking the surface and there is light and birds swarming and air . . . all suspended in a moment before the ship hits the next trough and we are