Directors Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel attached dozens of cameras to a commercial shipping vessel, giving a whole new meaning to the phrase “all aboard.” Through this innovative cinematography, we’re exposed to extreme and surreal vantages from this massive and forceful boat as it plows through the Atlantic. The rich tapestry of sounds and images dramatically shifts from dark corners of the deck, where fish remains slosh, to the shrill cries of gulls soaring above to the vibrations of the hull below the water’s surface. The experience is utterly engrossing, and yet because the perspectives continue to shift, we never quite get our sea legs. The resulting sensation is at once magnificent and squalid, inspired and damned. In witnessing this extreme sensory experience one can’t help but imagine the ways in which man, and his technology, abuses the natural world around him, mowing down the wonder and grace that stands in his way.  ST