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 films 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
- fr. OF mit en. 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 (Co-Regie), Dokumentarfilm
2012 LEVIATHAN (Co-Regie), Dokumentarfilm
2013 STILL LIFE (Co-Regie), Dokumentarfilm
2015 AH HUMANITY! (Co-Regie), Dokumentarfilm
2016 SOMNILOQUIES, (Co-Regie), Dokumentarfilm
2017 CANIBA, (Co-Regie), Dokumentarfilm
COMMENSAL (Co-Regie), Dokumentarfilm
2022 DE HUMANI CORPORIS FABRICA (Co-Regie), Dokumentarfilm HOF 2022
Lucien Castaing-Taylor
Born in 1966 in Liverpool/Great Britain. Active as an anthropologist, photographer and director.
Filmography
2010 SWEETGRASS, (Co-Regie), Dokumentarfilm
2012 LEVIATHAN (Co-Regie), Dokumentarfilm
2013 STILL LIFE (Co-Regie), Dokumentarfilm
2015 AH HUMANITY! (Co-Regie), Dokumentarfilm
2016 SOMNILOQUIES, (Co-Regie), Dokumentarfilm
2017 CANIBA, (Co-Regie), Dokumentarfilm
COMMENSAL (Co-Regie), Dokumentarfilm
2022 DE HUMANI CORPORIS FABRICA (Co-Regie), Dokumentarfilm HOF 2022
"[...] 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 und 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