November 5, 2013 — Anthropologists Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Verena Paravel have created a remarkable cinematic experience in Leviathan, a documentary shot in one night on a fishing trawler off the New England coast.
In the same seas that inspired Moby Dick, these two filmmakers have utilised innovative filming techniques to create a visceral portrait of fishing. By attaching cameras on the ends of poles and extending them into the boat’s nooks and crannies, the filmmakers immerse the audience in the sounds and textures of the trawler, and in the process capture the most astonishing images. In one extended shot the bodies of limp, slippery fish pile up, bulging eyeballs staring deadly into the lens. In another, with the camera submerged in the ship’s wake, we catch sight of bright red starfish suddenly forced into view as the ship surges forward.
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