De Humani Corporis Fabrica - Véréna Paravel & Lucien Castaing-Taylor

The screening on the 11^th of June will be preceded by an introduction by director Véréna Paravel and will be followed by a Q&A.
Paravel and Castaing-Taylor’s latest instalment is often hard to look at and at the same time impossible to look away from. De Humani Corporis Fabrica offers an unprecedented look into the universe that is the human body. It reveals that human flesh is an extraordinary landscape that exists only through the gaze and attention of others. On a whirlwind tour of various Parisian hospitals and specialist units the films shows, as places of care, suffering and hope, hospitals are laboratories that connect every body in the world.
Véréna Paravel is a filmmaker, visual anthropologist, and artist. From 2006 to 2023, she collaborated with Lucien Castaing-Taylor at Harvard’s Sensory Ethnography Lab. Together, they made Leviathan, Somniloquies, Caniba, and De Humani Corporis Fabrica (Venice 2023, Special Jury Prize), creating bold, non-anthropocentric cinema. Their work has been shown at major festivals (Cannes, Berlin, Venice, etc.), and in institutions such as MoMA, the Venice Biennale, documenta 14, the Centre Pompidou, and Tate Modern.