Bigger Than A Whale

Knut Skoglund
Norway, documentary, 1999
52 mins. (35mm)

A story about whalers, in the middle of work, in the middle of spectacular nature, in the middle of an international conflict of values. Bigger than a Whale moves beyond the international whaling conflict and invites the audience to judge the drama where it takes place: offshore, where the small vessel and the mink whale meet, and onshore, where people are dependent upon a sustainable catch of both whales and fish.