Documentary
American
2013 · Directed by Lucien Castaing-Taylor & Véréna Paravel · 87 min
A night-and-day immersion aboard a commercial fishing trawler in the North Atlantic, filmed with small waterproof cameras that go where no conventional crew could. There is no narrator, no interviews and almost no explained speech: only steel, water, blood, birds and the people who work among them.
Why it matters in cinema history
A defining film of early twenty-first-century experimental documentary, it carried the idea of cinema as bodily, sensory experience into non-fiction and widened what the genre could look and sound like.
Watch with intention
Treat it as an experience of sound, texture and shifting viewpoints, not a documentary that will explain fishing to you.
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