A portrayal of a hidden enclave of auto shops and junkyards fated for demolition in the shadow of a new baseball stadium in Queens. The film observes this vibrant community of immigrants – where wrecks, refuse, and recycling form a thriving commerce – as it struggles for daily survival and contests New York City's development scheme.

Foreign Parts

Ephemeral encounters recorded during a walk beneath the elevated tracks of the No. 7 subway line in New York City.

7 Queens

Melville´in gemisi Pequod´un Moby Dick´i kovaladığı sularda insan doğa ve makinenin ortak kaderleri Leviathan´da dile geliyor. Bu kolektif deneyimi belgeleyebilmek, insanoğlunun en eski mücadelesini hem balıkçıların hem de avın gözüyle aktarabilmek için balıkçılarla filmciler arasında gidip gelen, atılıp tutulan, iplerle bağlı düzinelerce kamera kullanılmış.
 Filmin yazarı, yönetmeni, kurgucusu ve yapımcısı, antropolog-bilim insanı-sanatçı-sinemacı olan ve Harvard Üniversitesi´ndeki Duyusal Etnografya Laboratuvarı´nda çalışan Véréna Paravel ile Lucien Castaing-Taylor. İnsan, hayvan ve makineyi; güzeli ve korkuncu; yaşam ve ölümü olağanüstü bir biçimde görüntüye aktaran Leviathan, şimdiye dek izlediğimiz filmlerden çok farklı..

Leviathan

A short companion to Leviathan, set inside the fishing vessel.

Still Life

An apocalyptic vision of the vertiginous intermingling of the sea and the sky.

Last Judgement

An archaeology of both the ocean and the image, this piece reworks the sequences of Leviathan that were shot in and from the sea. Projected at 1/50 of the speed at which they were recorded, it simultaneously slows movement and animates the still, revealing a liminal universe at the threshold of human vision. In this flux, one beholds a netherworld of aqueous forms that appear in one frame and disappear or transmogrify into something else in the next.

He Maketh a Path to Shine After Him; One Would Think the Deep to Be Hoary

Submarine spirits of monsters and demons, soldiers and sailors, pirates andwarriors, slaves and serpents, skulls and skeletons.