Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Véréna Paravel Leviathan

Description

In the very waters where Melville’s Pequod gave chase to Moby Dick, Leviathan captures the collaborative clash of man, nature and machine. Shot on a dozen cameras—tossed and tethered, passed from fisherman to filmmaker—it is a cosmic portrait of one of mankind’s oldest endeavors.



Biography

  • Lucien Castaing-Taylor

    Lucien Castaing-Taylor’s work seeks to conjugate art’s negative capability with an ethnographic attachment to the flux of life. His work …

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  • Véréna Paravel

    Véréna Paravel is a filmmaker and anthropologist working at the Sensory Ethnography Lab and Film Study Center at Harvard University. He…

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Project Updates

  • 2013: Leviathan will have theatrical premiere at IFC Center in New York on March 1

  • 2012: Leviathan is the winner of the FIPRESCI (International Film Critics) Award

  • 2012: Leviathan is acquired for U.S. release by Cinema Guild and will have its theatrical premiere in early 2013

  • 2012: Leviathan screens in Toronto Film Festival

  • 2012: Leviathan screens in the New York Film Festival

  • 2012: Leviathan has world premiere at Locarno Film Festival in Locarno, Italy

  • 2012: Castaing-Taylor and Paravel finish a rough cut of Leviathan

  • 2012: Castaing-Taylor and Paravel embark on multiple fishing expeditions to shoot footage of fishermen at work for Leviathan

Work Samples