Beast of Natal

Directed by

John Jackson et Didier Noirot

Produced by

MC4 Production

Documentary, France, 2004, 52 min

Each year in June, five billion sardines come together to form the largest living organism on the planet. The beast of Natal, forming a column of twenty miles by two, began the most incomprehensible of animal migration: three months and five thousand miles, explain neither by reproduction nor the need for food, and weaken the species by facilitating the work of predators.