Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Verena Paravel
De humani corporis fabrica
Edition 2022
117'
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2022
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Documentary
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Dialogue:
French
Director:
Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Verena Paravel
Anthropologist-filmmakers Véréna Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor explore the human body in their high-tech update of anatomy study De Humani Corporis Fabrica. A visually striking blend of documentary and science fiction.
Five centuries ago, anatomist André Vésale opened up the human body to science for the first time in history. Today, De Humani Corporis Fabrica opens the human body to the cinema. It reveals that human flesh is an extraordinary landscape that exists only through the gaze and attention of others. As places of care, suffering and hope, hospitals are laboratories that connect every body in the world.
"De humani corporis fabrica escorts us on a whirlwind tour of various Parisian hospitals and specialist units as seen through the shallow-focus eye of a tricked-out endoscopy camera. (…) Paravel and Castaing-Taylor locate a uniquely cinematic quality to the footage." - Little White Lies
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Credits
Director
Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Verena Paravel
Scenario
Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Verena Paravel
Director of Photography
Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Verena Paravel
Editor
Verena Paravel, Lucien Castaing-Taylor
Producer
Pauline Gygax, Max Karli, Valentina Novati
Production studios
Norte Productions
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Dialogue
French
Countries of production
Switzerland, France
Year
2022
Filmography
Lucien Castaing-Taylor
Sweetgrass (2010), Leviathan (2012), Still Life (short, 2013), Ah Humanity! (short, 2015), Caniba (2017), Somniloquies (2017), De humani corporis fabrica (2022)
Verena Paravel
Foreign Parts (2009), Leviathan (2012), Still Life (short, 2013), Ah Humanity! (short, 2015), Somniloquies (2016), Commensal (2017), Caniba (2017), De Humani Corporis Fabrica (2022)
