Dogwoof Leviathan

A groundbreaking, immersive portrait of the contemporary commercial fishing industry. Filmed off the coast of New Bedford, Massachusetts - at one time the whaling capital of the world as well as Melvilles inspiration for Moby Dick;it is today the countrys largest fishing port with over 500 ships sailing from its harbour every month. Leviathan follows one such vessel, a hulking ground fish trawler, into the surrounding murky black waters on a weeks-long fishing expedition. But instead of romanticizing the labour or partaking in the longstanding tradition of turning fisher folk 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 birds-eye views, the film that emerges is unlike anything that has Lees meer over de Dogwoof Leviathan van dogwoof in de productgroep entertainment