Leviathan Cycle, Episode 4: Jamila, 2018
HD video, 10'36"
Commissioned by Arts Council England, Barakat Contemporary, Seoul, HE.RO, Amsterdam, MUBI and Leviathan – Human & Marine Ecology. Courtesy of the artist and UBIK Productions.
Still from Leviathan Cycle, Episode 4: Jamila, 2018.
Still from Leviathan Cycle, Episode 4: Jamila, 2018.
Still from Leviathan Cycle, Episode 4: Jamila, 2018.
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?