Leviathan (2012)

Shot in the North Atlantic, this experimental documentary takes a sensory approach to exploring and expressing the brutal realities faced in the North American fishing industries. Winner of the International Critics prize at Locarno Festival in Switzerland. Says the New York Times: "Shot entirely aboard a fishing trawler off the Massachusetts coast, largely with small, waterproof digital cameras that were variously tethered to the fishermen, tossed in with their dead or dying catch and plunged into the roiling ocean.

"A portrait of commercial fishing in the North Atlantic as the written word alone could never render it, Leviathan conveys the toll that the enterprise takes on the workers and on the ocean, and it could even be read as an environmental parable in which the sea threatens to exact its revenge on humanity."

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