Leviathan, un film de Lucien Castaing-Taylor et Verena Paravel

Leviathan Trailer July 2012 from Sensory Ethnography Lab on Vimeo.

Leviathan est un film réalisé par deux artistes, réalisateurs et anthropologistes à bord d’un chalutier naviguant sur les côtes de la Nouvelle Angleterre. Le film capture le monde rude et implacable des pêcheurs.

Synopsis :

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 harbor every month.  Leviathan follows one such vessel, a hulking groundfish trawler, into the surrounding murky black waters on a weeks-long fishing expedition. But instead of romanticizing the labor or partaking in the longstanding tradition of turning fisherfolk 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 endeavors.

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