De Humani Corporis Fabrica

Véréna Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor
Part of

60th New York Film Festival

September 30 - October 16, 2022

In their thrilling new work of nonfiction exploration, Véréna Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor (Leviathan) burrow deeper than ever, using microscopic cameras and specially designed recording devices to survey the wondrous landscape of the human body.

DIRECTOR
Véréna Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor
YEAR
2022
COUNTRY
France / Switzerland / U.S.
RUNTIME
117 minutes
LANGUAGE
French with English subtitles

Q&As with Véréna Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor on Oct. 2 & 3

In their thrilling new work of nonfiction exploration, Véréna Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor, best known for such aesthetically and ethnographically revelatory films as Leviathan and Caniba, 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 normal 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 the 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.

Special thanks to Unifrance.

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