An experimental portrait of the North American commercial fishing industry through the lens of GoPro cameras placed on a fishing vessel off the coast of New England.
Cinematography
GoPros become existential horror devices. You ARE the fish now.
Sound
Industrial noise symphony. Chains, waves, machinery — no score needed.
Direction
Harvard Sensory Ethnography Lab doing unholy things with perspective.
Director
Lucien Castaing-Taylor
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of Harvard's Sensory Ethnography Lab movement — rejecting traditional documentary 'explanation' for pure embodied experience. They literally threw cameras into the ocean and hoped for art.
The directors lived on this ship for months, sleeping in shifts with the crew. Castaing-Taylor got a hernia from hauling equipment. Commitment level: unhinged.
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