Leviathan

Leviathan
Country: UK/France
Directors: Véréna Paravel, Lucien Castaing-Taylor
Critics are calling this amazing film – which captures the collaborative clash of man, nature, and machine – one of the best of the year. With a gripping immediacy, and a kind of sci-fi dimension, this non-fiction film without voice-over narration, was shot with a dozen cameras – tossed and tethered – and passed from fisherman to filmmaker. Soaking the viewer in the sensory experience and the hard physical labor of an endeavor that dates from the Paleolithic era, it is a cosmic portrait of commercial fishing as never seen before. (2012; 87 min) Preceded by Vazaha: 2nd Chapter, by Ben Hernstrom.