Filmmakers, anthropologists, artists, and members of the Sensory Ethnography Laboratory at Harvard Véréna Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor manipulate sound and images with experimental techniques to produce some of the most fascinating documentaries of the last several years, including award-winning Leviathan (2012), Somniloquies (2016), and Caniba (2017). The latter was awarded the Special Orizzonti Jury Prize at the 74th Venice Film Festival. Paravel’s and Castaing-Taylor’s upcoming documentary, We Humans, is an epic film installation that is visible every day at Arsenale. The film takes us to five hospitals in Paris. In each, we will visit exam rooms, operating theatres, and morgues. The camera follows sounds and scalpels into the flesh, and forces our eyes to actively participate to surgeries and push the limits of the visible and the measurable. De Humani Corporis Fabrica is the essence of a place that lives and breathes pain, disease, death as well as birth, cure, hope. A laboratory that connects all bodies in the world. Compositional rigour and rhythm give life to an unimaginable journey into the mystery of the human body, memorializing an amazing landscape that is as familiar to us as it is utterly alien.
20 July >3 August h. 11-20
Sala d’Armi A, Arsenale
