Leviathan Cycle
Episode 3: Arturo
2018, HD video, 17:25
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 arrive at a strange and enigmatic community based on an island in the lagoon of Venice.They engage in scavenging raids to the mainland and sexual abandon, which is paralleled visually with images of overfishing and unnecessary cruelty in the fishingindustry of the Mediterranean.
Written and Directed by
Shezad Dawood
Produced by
Elizabeth Benjamin
Commissioned by / Supported by
Commissioned by Leviathan – Human & Marine Ecology.
Exhibited at
Kai Art Center (Tallinn), 2020
Bluecoat (Liverpool), 2019
Kunstverein München (Munich), 2019
CPH:DOX (Copenhagen), 2019
Elephant West x Itinerant Works (London), 2019
The Atlantic Project (Plymouth), 2018
Timothy Taylor (London), 2017
Venice Biennale - Fondazione Querini Stampalia (Venice), 2017