Leviathan Cycle
Episode 2: Yasmine
2017, HD video, 22:10
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.
Yasmine – a woman of North African origin, ekes out an existence in the derelict, former Victorian Market Hall in Plymouth. A young man arrives, and we follow Yasmine’s inner monologue and exterior journey, through musings on borders, migration, species and social niceties.
Written and Directed by
Shezad Dawood
Produced by
Elizabeth Benjamin
Commissioned by / Supported by
Commissioned by CREAM – University of Westminster and 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