Filmmaker Eleanor Mortimer tags along with a team of oceanographers and marine biologists as they survey the Clarion-Clipperton fracture, one of the most remote spots on Earth, a 12-day maritime journey from the nearest land, and two miles below the surface. This is home to any number of previously unknown species, it turns out. The scientists are here to discover, study, and catalogue an entire “new” world — but an ecosystem under threat from deep sea mining.
One spectacular visual extravaganza… This accomplished film has a bit of everything. It’s part gorgeous journey along one of the world’s deepest sea beds, part political conundrum, part extended science lesson, and part portrait of a team of passionate oceanographers.
Susan G Cole, POV magazine
Dazzling… [The scientists’] wonder is palpable and easily shared as various exotic, amorphous, luridly painted organisms float into view, identified with decidedly non-academic names like ’Psychedelic Elvis Worm’ and ’Headless Chicken Monster.’
Guy Lodge, Variety
Urgent, meaningful, entirely captiviating.
Alex Billington, Firstshowing.net
Eleanor Mortimer
Lupita Bribiesca Contreras, Bethany Fleming, Eva Stewart, Belen Arias, Adrian Glover, Lucas King
UK
2025
English
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Credits
Executive Producer
Jessica Harrop, Luke W Moody
Producer
Jacob Thomas
Cinematography
Eleanor Mortimer
Editor
Nicole Halova
Original Music
Fraya Thomsen
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