Leviathan, Mark Požlep, 2025
Two channel video installation, 37’50”
In Leviathan, artist Mark Požlep embarks on a 100-kilometre walk along the eroding Suffolk coast — from Lowestoft to Harwich — tracing the decline of one of the UK’s oldest fishing industries while exploring the deep entanglement between people, sea, and landscape.
Blending poetic travelogue, oral history, and personal encounter, Leviathan is a layered documentary work rooted in walking, listening, and witnessing.
Through a combination of text, testimony, image and sound, the project reflects on loss, memory, and resilience — as well as on the mythical presence of the sea itself: vast, indifferent, unknowable. This is not a tale of conquest, but of quiet recognition.
Leviathan by Mark Požlep
Camera: Mark Požlep
Editing: Mark Požlep
Soundscape composition: Matthew Shenton
Interviewees: Keith Mayal, Stanley Earl
A SPILL Commission
Leviathan is supported by Suffolk County Council. Mark Požlep’s participation has been supported by the Cultural Fund, which aims to promote Slovenian culture abroad, and administered by the Slovenian Embassy in London on behalf of the Ministry of Culture and the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs of Slovenia.
