De Humani Corporis Fabrica
Five centuries ago, the anatomist Andreas Vesalius opened up the human body to science for the first time in history. Today, this film 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 the laboratories that connect every body in the world.
De Humani Corporis Fabrica
Verena Paravel, Lucien Castaing-Taylor
- Documentary
- Production Country / Year
- France, United States, Switzerland 2022
- Language
- frz. OF m. engl. UT
- Format
- DCP, Color, 117min
1.78:1 (16:9), Discrete 5.1
Director & Crew
Verena Paravel
Born in 1971 in Neuchâtel/Switzerland. Active as an anthropologist, photographer and director.
Filmography
| 2009 | Foreign Parts | Dokumentarfilm Co-Regie |
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| 2012 | Leviathan | Dokumentarfilm Co-Regie |
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| 2013 | Still Life | Dokumentarfilm Co-Regie |
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| 2015 | Ah Humanity! | Dokumentarfilm Co-Regie |
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| 2016 | Somniloquies | Dokumentarfilm Co-Regie |
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| 2017 | Caniba | Dokumentarfilm Co-Regie |
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| 2022 | De Humani Corporis Fabrica | Dokumentarfilm Co-Regie |
2022 |
Lucien Castaing-Taylor
Born in 1966 in Liverpool/Great Britain. Active as an anthropologist, photographer and director.
Filmography
| 2010 | Sweetgrass | Dokumentarfilm Co-Regie |
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| 2012 | Leviathan | Dokumentarfilm Co-Regie |
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| 2013 | Still Life | Dokumentarfilm Co-Regie |
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| 2015 | Ah Humanity! | Dokumentarfilm Co-Regie |
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| 2016 | Somniloquies | Dokumentarfilm Co-Regie |
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| 2017 | Caniba | Dokumentarfilm Co-Regie |
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| 2022 | De Humani Corporis Fabrica | Dokumentarfilm Co-Regie |
2022 |
| 2023 | Commensal | Dokumentarfilm Co-Regie |
"[...] Andreas Vesalius really established anatomy as a science. He made many mistakes, but he was the first whose work was based on dissecting corpses, the first to do everything empirically. We're interested in that because we find that cinema, especially documentary film, is not very empirical. It's more journalistic than reality-based. We want to make films that are more intimate and more reality-based, with all the cruelty that entails.
[...] Caregivers and patients understood that we were not interested in a show, but that our research was designed to last, and stemmed from a genuine desire to explore and fathom something from within ourselves, to overcome our notion of being in the world. Everyone was informed and willing to participate in this form of research. I also think patients, once they're in hospital, experience a form of invasion, and ours is much less in some ways."
Véréna Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor
- Director of Photography
- Verena Paravel
- Lucien Castaing-Taylor
- Editor
- Verena Paravel
- Lucien Castaing-Taylor
- Producer
- Verena Paravel
- Valentina Novati
- Charles Gillibert
- Pauline Gygax
- Max Karli
- Lucien Castaing-Taylor