Underplayed Gems

Leviathan (2012)

Leviathan poster
Directed by
Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Véréna Paravel
Genre
documentary film
Country
France, United States
Runtime
1h 27m
Rated
NR
Rating
6.5 of 10 from 102 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

The film follows a commercial fishing crew working off the coast of North America. It shows the exhausting and dangerous labor on the boat using small cameras placed in extreme positions.

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What happens

Leviathan is a 2012 American documentary directed by Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel of the Sensory Ethnography Lab at Harvard University. It is a work about the North American fishing industry. The film was acquired for U.S. distribution by The Cinema Guild. The film-makers used GoPro cameras and worked twenty-hour shifts during the shooting of the film. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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