Captured with various GoPro cameras that get flung, dragged and dunked along with the various parts of the fishing trawler (flung with the fishing net into the water, dragged through the fish cleaning equipment with some of the catchings, sunk into the ocean with the discarded leftovers, to name a few). The film has been talked about for its sensory, visceral aesthetic and it takes great pains to construct perspectives that exist outside of the typical human perspectives and demarcations between animal, human, nature, and culture. The film asks the question of what it is like to be a barnacle on the stern of the ship, or a rope, straining under the weight of the sea.
In this sense, I think the film is a useful visual-sensory exploration of processes of negotiating and overlapping nature and life, as discussed in Whitehead last week.
Unfortunately, the trailer does not demonstrate this exploration very well, as it attempts to cast more of a rigid narrative and structure onto the film than exists in the feature. I recommend watching the film!
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