Leviathan – Episode 1: Ben

Shezad Dawood

Shezad Dawood's Leviathan Cycle is a film series considering the key issue of our day: how do we understand the intersection of climate change, migration and mental health in our shared ecosystems?  The films blend fiction and fact carefully researched in collaboration with scientists, philosophers, activists, anthropologists, futurists, trauma specialists, oceanographers and climatologists, to envisage a near-future eerily like our present. Each episode is written from the point of view of an individual character, and the first episode follows the British born Ben (Zed Josef) who describes the end of civilisation as we know it following a cataclysmic solar event.  Taking a global and collective approach, the larger narrative follows a migratory journey across Europe, Asia, North Africa and beyond, encountering a series of idiosyncratic communities along the way, who move from breakdown to resilience as they find methods to survive the future. 
Time: 13
Year: 2017
Language: English