De Humani Corporis Fabrica

Synopsis

Five centuries ago, anatomist André Vésale opened up the human body to science for the first time in history. Today, De Humani Corporis Fabrica 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 laboratories that connect every body in the world.

Director Biography

VERENA PARAVEL and LUCIEN CASTAING-TAYLOR collaborate as filmmakers at the Sensory Ethnography Laboratory, Harvard University. Their films and installations have been screened in prestigious festivals. Recently, their work joined the permanent collections of the Museum such as the MoMa, the British Museum, and has been exhibited at Tate Modern in London, Withney Museum, Centre Pompidou and Berlin Kunsthalle. De Humani Corporis Fabrica is their fourth film resulting from their collaboration.