SYNOPSIS
In the very waters where Melville’s Pequodgave 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.
Awards
New Vision Award | Copenhagen Documentary IFF, Denmark, 2012
Independent/Experimental Film and Video Award | Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards, USA, 2012
FIPRESCI Award, FICC/IFFS Don Quixote Prize, Special Mention | Locarno IFF, Switzerland, 2012
Standard Audience Award | Vienna IFF, Austria, 2012
Non-fiction Eurodoc Award | Sevilla IFF, Spain, 2012
Best cinematography, Best sound in international feature | RIDM, Canada, 2012
Grand Jury Award, One + One Award, Documentaire sur grand écran Award | Belfort IFF, France, 2012
Best film special prize-internazionale | Torino FF, Italy, 2012
Douglas Edwards Award | L.A. Film Critics Circle, USA, 2013
Independent/Experimental Award | NY FF, USA, 2013
La Giuria Giovani | Milan IFF, Italy, 2013
Silver Puma for best film | Ficuman IFF, Mexico, 2013
Special Mention for feature-length film from Professioanal Jury, Award Special Mention from Youth Jury | The True Vision Awards, USA, 2013
CAST & CREW
Véréna Paravel
Director
Producer(s)
Véréna Paravel, Lucien Castaing-Taylor
Director of Photography
Véréna Paravel, Lucien Castaing-Taylor
Production designer
Zak Tucker
Sound
Ernst Karel, Jacob Ribicoff
Edit
Véréna Paravel, Lucien Castaing-Taylor
Production company(ies)
Sensory Ethnography Lab
Véréna Paravel
Véréna Paravel is a French anthropologist and filmmaker. She made her first short video, 7 Queens at the Harvard University Sensory Ethnography Lab. She has recently completed Interface Series, five short videos shot entirely through Skype. Her work- screened in Boston, Paris and New York City's Amie and Tony James Gallery- explores evanescent forms of intimacy, mediation, and space, she draws on experimental ethnography.
Filmography
Véréna Paravel 7 Queens(2008), Interface Series(2009), Foreign Parts(2010, co-dir.: Lucien Castaing-Taylor)
Lucien Castaing-Taylor
Director
Lucien Castaing-Taylor
Born 1966, Liverpool, UK. Lucien Castaing-Taylor teaches at Harvard University where he is the Director of the Sensory Ethnography Lab. His work includes the short film Made in USA and In and out of Africa, co-directed with Ilisa Barbash. In 2009, he completed (with Ilisa Barbash) Sweetgrass, which was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award. He has completed a series of audio-video installations and photographic Westerns including Hell Roaring Creek (2010), The High Trail (2010), Coom Biddy (2012) and Bedding Down (2012).
Filmography
Made in USA(1990, co-dir.: Ilisa Barbash), In and out of Africa(1992, co-dir.: Ilisa Barbash),Sweetgrass (2009,co-dir.: Ilisa Barbash), Leviathan(2012 co-dir.: Véréna Paravel).
