De Humani Corporis Fabrica

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De Humani Corporis Fabrica

Véréna PARAVEL and Lucien CASTAING-TAYLOR France, USA, Switzerland 115 mins R21 (Mature Content) Southeast Asian Premiere

FILM SYNOPSIS

An immersive, visceral journey through the structures and pathologies of human and medical bodies in the 21st century.

This experimental documentary presents the body as it has never been seen in cinema. Using state-of-the-art medical imaging devices, the film descends into the depths of suffering bodies in surgery, reaping images of such startling intimacy and abstraction as to evoke both beauty and horror. Meanwhile, on the soundtrack, the surgeons’ shockingly irreverent chatter reorients us towards other bodies in crisis: their own, whose gruelling yet god-like work exacts a spiritual cost, as well as an overworked and underpaid medical body. As other scenes take us through delivery rooms, morgues, Dionysian rec rooms and underground passages, the body emerges as a site of constitutive dysfunction, where the sacred and profane intertwine.

FILM INFO

English Title De Humani Corporis Fabrica

Director Véréna PARAVEL and Lucien CASTAING-TAYLOR

Country France, USA, Switzerland

Year 2022

Language(s) French

Subtitle English

Runtime 115 mins

Advisory R21 (Mature Content)

Premiere Southeast Asian Premiere

FILM CREDITS

Lucien CASTAING-TAYLOR and Véréna PARAVEL

Anthropologists and visual artists Lucien CASTAING-TAYLOR and Véréna PARAVEL are collaborators at Harvard’s Sensory Ethnography Lab. Their groundbreaking documentary Leviathan (2012) won the FIPRESCI Prize at Locarno and the New Vision Award at CPH:DOX. De Humani Corporis Fabrica premiered at Cannes in the Directors’ Fortnight section.

Cast

Screenwriters Véréna PARAVEL, Lucien CASTAING-TAYLOR

Producers Valentina NOVATI
Charles GILLIBERT
Pauline GYGAX
Max KARLI
Verena PARAVEL
Lucien CASTAING-TAYLOR

CONTACT

Les Films du Losange

r.quinet@filmsdulosange.fr

screening details

Screening Details

Date/Time

28 Nov 2022, Mon 6:30 PM
Venue

Oldham Theatre
Runtime

115 mins
Online Q&A available on YouTube (coming soon)

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