Originally released as a motion picture in 2012.

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Special features of this DVD: Still life/Nature morte, a short film ; theatrical trailer ; booklet featuring essay by critic Cyril Neyrat ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital ; scene selection.

In this cinema verite work set entirely on a groundfish trawler out of New Bedford, Mass., the filmmakers have avoided the standard equipment of interviews, analysis and explanation. A product of the Sensory Ethnography Lab at Harvard, the film offers not information but immersion in wind, water, grinding machinery and piscine agony. The brutality of fishing, as opposed to its romance, is emphasized here. The experience is often unnerving and sometimes nauseating, because of the motions of the juddering, swaying hand-held camera and also because of the distended eyes, gasping mouths and mutilated flesh of the catch. Presented without dialogue, speech is drowned out by the roar of the elements and the screech and thump of engines and hydraulic winches.

Not rated.

DVD.

Without dialogue with background sounds.