Leviathan (2012)

Leviathan is a raw, experimental film about life and death on and around a fishing vessel in the North Atlantic Ocean.

Small, moving cameras are always mounted in a different place: from the tattooed arm of one of the sailors, to a container full of scurriling fish or somewhere deep under the meter-high waves. The camera wrings through all the cracks and holes of the fishing boat and makes the harsh reality of life on and around the ship tangible.

Leviathan is not a traditional narrative, but a completely compelling sensory experience that makes the collision between man, nature and machine tangible. This intense documentary comes from Harvard’s Sensory Ethnography Lab, founded in 2006 and excels in its experimental style and enormous technological ingenuity. The film is also free of dialogue, voice-overs and talking-heads. The soundtrack consists only of the raw sound of life at sea.

Prior to the screening on May 27, Katarina van den Brink will provide an introduction. She worked in collaboration with Eye Filmmuseum on the exhibition around the creators of Leviathan, Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel.

This film is part of the series BODIES OF WATER, to be seen in May and June in De Uitkijk.

The people at de Uitkijk have kindly offered a limited amount of free tickets for Subbacultcha members. Please make a reservation by sending an email to mailinglist@subbacultcha.nl with “Leviathan (2012)” in the subject line + your name in the email.