Leviathan is a 2012 American documentary directed by Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel of the Sensory Ethnography Lab at Harvard University.

[2] Rotten Tomatoes reports 84% approval for Leviathan based on 51 critics,[3] and the film also holds an 81/100 average on Metacritic.

"[5] Dennis Lim of The New York Times noted that the film "conveys the brutal toll that the enterprise takes on the workers and on the ocean, and it could even be read as an environmental parable in which the sea threatens to exact its revenge on humanity.

critic Stephanie Zacharek was less complimentary, calling the film "a self-conscious tone poem concocted from oblique camera angles, shots held longer than it takes a tadpole to reach maturity and nighttime images enhanced with a psychedelic glow.

[12] The area of New Bedford has a history of being the whaling capital of the past, and is presently the largest fishing port in the United States.

[14] The images produced by the GoPros created after-images of haunting qualities due to the lack of clarity within the lens.

Most anthropological writing and most ethnographic film, with the exception of some truly great works, is so devoid of emotional or sensory experience.” Above all, he added: “It takes what art can do seriously.