Leviathan Cycle, Episode 2: Yasmine, 2017
HD video, 22'10"
Commissioned by CREAM – University of Westminster and Leviathan – Human & Marine Ecology. Courtesy of the artist and UBIK Productions.
Still from Leviathan Cycle, Episode 2: Yasmine, 2017.
Still from Leviathan Cycle, Episode 2: Yasmine, 2017.
Still from Leviathan Cycle, Episode 2: Yasmine, 2017.
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.