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Leviathan

27th(2022) Special Program in Focus

Environment/Nature · Science/Technology/IT  

  • CountryFrance/United States/United Kingdom
  • Production Year2012
  • Running Time93min
  • Format DCP
  • ColorColor
Program Note
A monumental documentary filmed from an anthropologist’s perspective by directors Verena Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor of the Harvard University’s Sensory Ethnography Lab. Two directors board a trawler with twelve GoPro cameras and no camera crew. The slanted dark sea, chains pulled out of the water, fish sloshing about on deck, seagulls gathering in around the boat, bloody water poured into the sea, and fishermen cleaning the fish have been captured wonderfully on camera. A world devoid of narrative and meaning. All that exists is the scenery and time inside and outside of the fishing boat. Leviathan may draw out something like a moan or a sound of admiration at the bizarre power of GoPro cameras that seem to project a gaze that is completely different from that of humans—a gaze that may well be that of the biblical monster Leviathan. It is a marvelous and entrancing cinematic experience. (KANG Sowon)
Director
Director
Verena PARAVEL
Verena Paravel has collaborated on numerous projects with Lucien Castaing-Taylor, whom she met at the Sensory Ethnography Laboratory at Harvard University. Their film Leviathan (2012) won several awards, including the FIPRESCI Award at the Locarno International Film Festival. Their film, Caniba (2017), won the Orizzonti Special Jury Award at the Venice Film Festival. Their filmography includes Ah Humanity! (2015) and Somniloquies (2016). De Humani Corporis Fabrica is their fourth collaboration invited to the Directors’ Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.
Director
Lucien CASTAING-TAYLOR
Lucien Castaing-Taylor worked collaboratively on numerous projects with Verena Paravel, whom he met at the Sensory Ethnography Laboratory at Harvard University. Their film Leviathan (2012) won numerous awards, including the FIPRESCI Award at the Locarno International Film Festival. Their film, Caniba (2017), won the Orizzonti Special Jury Award at the Venice Film Festival. Their filmography includes Ah Humanity! (2015) and Somniloquies (2016). De Humani Corporis Fabrica is their fourth collaboration to be invited to the Directors’ Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.
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Credit
  • Director Verena PARAVEL 베레나 파라벨, Lucien CASTAING-TAYLOR 루시엔 카스탱-테일러
  • Cast
  • Production Company Sensory Ethnography Laboratory
    United States
    SEL, Harvard University, 24 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
    verena.paravel@gmail.com