Vertigo Sea is a three-screen film installation that explores what Ralph Waldo Emerson calls 'the sublime seas'. Fusing archival material, readings from classical sources and newly shot footage, Akomfrah's piece focuses on the disorder and cruelty of the whaling industry and juxtaposes it with scenes of many generations of migrants making epic crossings of the ocean for a better life.
John Akomfrah
Director
Public Speaking70%
Directed by John Ford70%
A Plastic Ocean75%
Sherman's March67%
Lionel Messi: Destiny78%
McQueen74%
Extremis69%
In the Realms of the Unreal71%
The Class of ‘9271%
John Candy: I Like Me78%
My Mom Jayne80%
Above Majestic73%
The Summers of It - Chapter Two: It Ends71%
Maternal Instinct71%
Being James Bond77%
180° South72%
Seduced and Abandoned62%
I Am Heath Ledger74%
The Cheshire Murders65%
Deepsea Challenge 3D66%
