Leviathan

Director: Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Vérena Paravel

2012 / 87min / DCP

Setting out on the high seas of the North Atlantic aboard a Massachusetts-based commercial fishing trawler, Castaing-Taylor and Paravel produced one of the most mesmerizing, visually distinctive, and startlingly immediate documentaries of the 21st century, using the unique agility of their lightweight GoPro cameras to capture perspectives unlike anything theretofore seen in cinema, from gull-like views of the vessel to plunges into the slimy viscera of the day’s catch. “The density of aural and visual stimuli overwhelms—and liberates.”—Melissa Anderson, The Village Voice