One of the most gripping and ferocious cinematic experiences of recent years, Leviathan is a documentary like no other. Shooting on a commercial fishing vessel off the New Bedford coast (in the same waters where Herman Melville's Pequod gave chase to Moby Dick), Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel employ dozens of tiny cameras — attached to fishermen, dangling from nets, plunked into bins full of flopping, dying fish, and tossed over the side to be submerged in the roiling chaos of the ocean — to capture the collaborative clash of man, nature, and machine. Capturing images impossible to see with the human eye, seamlessly shifting perspective from the cacophony of the deck to the icy graveyard of the sea while predatory seagulls swarm over the bloody scraps sluiced over the side, Leviathan is a thrillingly experimental approach to documentary and an audio-visual tour de force of cosmic proportions.