In MOBY DICK; or, The Whale, award-winning filmmaker and visual artist Wu Tsang embarks upon a feature-length, silent-film telling of Herman Melville’s great American novel. This adaptation follows the white whale, delving into a visual cosmology that resists the exploitation of the earth under imperial colonialism. Tsang’s approach pairs the classic story of the whaler's ”floating factory” with the beginnings of the film industry, combining silent-era filmmaking techniques with Virtual Production, projecting surreal VR ocean environments. The narrative tackles the novel's subterranean currents, encountering the resistance of the ship’s hydrarchy, or organizational structure, and collectives of “mariners, renegades, and castaways.” Featuring original music composed by Caroline Shaw and Andrew Yee with Asma Maroof..