De Humani Corporis Fabrica
Véréna Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor, 2022,
Véréna Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor are best known for such aesthetically and ethnographically revelatory films as Leviathan and Caniba.
In their thrilling new work of nonfiction exploration, they burrow deeper than ever, using microscopic cameras and specially designed recording devices to survey the wondrous landscape of the human body.
More transfixing than clinical, the film, shot in hospitals in and around Paris, eschews the conventional narrative parameters for medical documentation in favor of a rigorously detached, expressionistic look at our tactile yet essentially unknowable flesh and viscera.
With its unshakable images of biopsies, cesarean delivery, endoscopic procedures, and little-seen crevices inside all of us, De Humani Corporis Fabrica both demystifies and celebrates life and death.
A Grasshopper Film and Gratitude Films release.
France/Switzerland/U.S., 117m
French with English subtitles
U.S. Premiere
