Screening:

Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Verena Paravel,
Leviathan, 2012

Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel’s Leviathan (2012) is an immersive experimental documentary set aboard a commercial fishing vessel off the coast of New England. Using an unconventional array of GoPro cameras, the film abandons traditional framing to plunge the viewer directly into the sensory chaos of the sea. Human figures, machines, and marine life merge into a continuous flow of motion, noise, and bodily exertion. There is no guiding narration; instead, perception is fragmented and decentralized. The ocean becomes an overwhelming force—both material and metaphysical—where labor, violence, and survival are inseparable. Leviathan redefines documentary form as pure embodied experience.