Baltic Cinema: Leviathan

Sources: For All At Last Return

Baltic Cinema: Leviathan

Wed 26 November | 18:30

£6 Full price / £4 Students, under 18s, unwaged and 65+

A documentary like no other, Leviathan is a thrilling, immersive film set on and in the sea as a commercial fishing crew navigates the treacherous waves off the New England coast.

Sailing the very waters that once inspired Moby Dick, Verena Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor’s incredible film captures the harsh, unforgiving world of the fishermen in haunting yet beautiful detail. Employing an arsenal of cameras that pass freely from film crew to ship crew, and swoop from below sea level to astonishing bird’s-eye views, Leviathan is unlike anything you have ever seen; a purely visceral, cinematic experience.

Leviathan screens here in response to the exhibition For All At Last Return in our Level 4 Gallery.

‘The imagery is simply, bluntly majestic … it’s staggering cinema – proof that there are more things in heaven and below the sea that you can imagine, that there are new images waiting to be discovered.’ — Nick Pinkerton, Sight & Sound

‘These saturated, sublime images bear little comparison to any other film; rather, they evoke the work of artists such as Winslow Homer and JMW Turner. In fact, by attaching 21st-century cameras to themselves and the crew of the Athena, the directors were re-enacting Turner's legendary feat, when he had his body lashed to the mast of a Harwich boat for four hours to experience a storm at sea face-to-face and thus render it in oil.’ — Philip Hoare, The Guardian

Doors open 18:30; Film starts 18:45. Baltic Kitchen is open until 18:30 for drinks, which you are welcome to take up to the cinema.

Please note we cannot offer refunds on this event.