Clifford and Houston have collaborated on short documentaries that have screened at Mountainfilm such as Stone River and Eel/Water/Rock/Man. Their next project is Picture the Leviathan, a short documentary film about James Prosek, the author of eleven books, winner of a Peabody Award, and well established as an artist by the time he finished college. Prosek paints in the tradition of nineteenth-century naturalists who catalogued the world as it was discovered. But he paints creatures that are vanishing. Clifford’s and Houston’s film will follow Prosek on a quest to paint approximately 40 Atlantic fish species that are significant to humans -- and paint them from life, full-sized, after seeing them alive. It is a quest never before attempted.