Leviathan Cycle

Episode 4: Jamila

2018, HD video, 10:36

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Leviathan Cycle is a multi-episode film series, and part of Shezad Dawood’s groundbreaking multimedia Leviathan project, exploring the intersection of climate change, migration and mental health. Each film has been crafted as a self-contained work blending fictional narrative and documentary footage, with the possibility of being endlessly reconfigured with other episodes to create distinctive storylines extending from the evolving corpus of Leviathan material.

Ben and Yasmine are attacked by Jamila and her group of parasitic bandits on the Southern coast of Morocco. The ethics of survival and predator-prey relationships in both human and marine species are explored, as members of another group intervene. But is this out of the frying pan and into the fire for our protagonists?

Written and Directed by

Shezad Dawood

Produced by

Elizabeth Benjamin

Commissioned by / Supported by

Commissioned by Arts Council, England, Barakat, Seoul, HERO Amsterdam and Leviathan – Human & Marine Ecology.

Exhibited at

Kino der Kunst (Munich), 2020
Kai Art Center (Tallinn), 2020
Bluecoat (Liverpool), 2019
Oberhausen Film Festival (Oberhausen), 2019
Elephant West x Itinerant Works (London), 2019
HERO (Amsterdam), 2018
Barakat Contemporary (Seoul), 2018