Filmmakers Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Verena Paravel are presenting a documentary in the North Atlantic that is a film that helps the public understand more information about the sea and human life aboard boats in the fishing industry that is causing great controversy in the world.
Radical experiential/experimental video of bloody viscera and abstract beauty. Embedded/embodied lens as in Brakhage's "The Governor" and Geyrhalter's "Our Daily Bread."
Rarely an easy watch, but a visual and sensory experience unlike any other: this is Captain Phillips meets Captain Birdseye as co-directed by God and the Devil.
More an accumulation of often indefinable images than any kind of even remotely traditional feature, the documentary "Leviathan" proves a strange and unsatisfying endurance test.
Gradually you realize you're witnessing a nonlinear entertainment that's setting its own rules, and you'll either go with the flow or take an early leave.
Little White Lies
November 29, 2013
When we say it's like nothing else you've seen, you've really got to take our word for it.
