Lucien Castaing-Taylor

Launched at Locarno Film Festival in 2012, and quickly become one of the most talked about experimental films of the decade, the unclassifiable Leviathan is exactly the sort of film one can discover at such a fest: a visceral experience, a new way of seeing.

This risk-taking, radically immersive documentary from Harvard’s Sensory Ethnography Lab strips cinema to its essentials, locking down the camera and letting us observe all kinds of people as they travel to a sacred temple. A serene project that experiments with form while staying powerfully humane.