Leviathan (Véréna Paravel & Lucien Castaing-Taylor, 2012) — December 5, 2013 I’m on board. Sound, fish POV, net POV, the colors, watching TV, humanity as unconquerable monster dominating other species, more sound, the terror of seagull attack, the possibilities of digital cinema, oh wow the colors. The Iron Ministry (JP Sniadecki,

The Harvard Sensory Ethnography Lab is apparently bent on domination of the documentary world, or at least its cutting edge. While Lucien Castaing-Taylor has taken the film world by storm with his Sweetgrass and now Leviathan (co-directed with Verena Paravel), films about sheep-herding and fishing, respectively, that have become minor

A few thoughts I jotted down while watching People’s Park, a single-take documentary set in a park in the city of Chengdu, Sichuan by directors JP Sniadecki and Libbie Cohn: * So this is a lot like Russian Ark, the single-take trip through the Hermitage directed by Alexander Sokurov, except