Close-up: Véréna Paravel & Lucien Castaing-Taylor

In the presence of Véréna Paravel 

Véréna Paravel is a filmmaker, visual anthropologist, artist, editor, and producer. Since 2006 she has been collaborating with Lucien Castaing-Taylor at Harvard University’s Sensory Ethnography Lab (SEL), an experimental hub blending aesthetics and ethnography through analog/digital media, installations, and performance. Together, they created films such as Leviathan (2012), Somniloquies (2016), Caniba (2017 - Venice Film Festival - Orizzonti Special Jury Prize), and De Humani Corporis Fabrica (2023). With each new film the filmmakers invented new cinematic languages, favouring the non-anthropocentric perspective and thereby making us see the world in the most surprising ways. 

Their films have screened at major festivals including Berlin, Cannes, Locarno, Toronto, and Venice, and are part of MoMA’s permanent collection. Their work has also been presented at the Venice Biennale, documenta 14, Centre Pompidou, Tate, Whitney Museum, Barbican, Berlin’s Kunsthalle, and London’s ICA.

Bozar presents a selection of films by Paravel and Castaing-Taylor in the presence of Véréna Paravel. The program also includes two additional SEL-produced films.