Chasing Whales

SHORT SYNOPSIS: Chasing whales is an experimental short documentary film following the journey of the French filmmaker La Fille Renne on the trail of cetaceans, reflecting on our relation to them and the evolution of their hunt in Northern Europe. SYNOPSIS: “Travels after travels, in endless expanses of ocean and preserved nature, cetaceans set the tempo for my weeks one way or another: dead or alive, skeleton or cut-up flesh, archaeological artefact or decoration, hunted or stranded.” After coming across cetaceans or their artefacts in Norway, in Lofoten, and Orkney, filmmaker La Fille Renne decided to take their camera to the Faroes and the Hebrides. From magnificent landscapes to whaling stations’ ruins and whale skeletons, their research caused them to face past and current relationships between humans and those sea mammals. They question the fragility of our links to those giants, the current whaling practices inherited from subsistence behaviour, the human impact on marine ecosystems, and the future.

Year

2025

Director

La Fille Renne

Duration

5 min

Country

France

Language

French