Véréna Paravel
Nacimiento : 1971-04-21, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Historia
Véréna Paravel (born 21 April 1971 in Neuchâtel, Switzerland) is a French anthropologist and artist who works in film, video, and photography.
Paravel was born in Neuchâtel, Switzerland, to French parents, and grew up in Algeria, Portugal, Togo, Côte d'Ivoire, the Soviet Union, and France. She taught at the Université de Toulouse, and received her PhD in Anthropology and Communication Sciences from the Université de Toulouse II. She later worked with Bruno Latour at the École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris. In 2004, she moved to the United States, where she had a postdoctoral fellowship at Columbia University.
Since 2006, Verena Paravel has worked with Lucien Castaing-Taylor at the Sensory Ethnography Lab at Harvard University. She has been a Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at Harvard University, and in 2012-13 she was the Frieda L. Miller Fellow in Film, Video, Sound, and New Media at the Film Study Center and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. She is also on the master class faculty at the Ecole des Arts Politiques at Sciences Po in Paris. In 2013, she and Castaing-Taylor jointly received the True Vision Award from the True/False Film Festival. Her works in film and video have screened at Berlin, Locarno, New York, Toronto, and other film festivals. They include 7 Queens (2008), Interface Series (2008-10), Foreign Parts (2010), and Leviathan (with Castaing-Taylor, 2012).
Sound
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.
Editor
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 of Photography
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.
Camera Operator
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.
Producer
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
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.
Miriama
Rachel tiene 40 años, no tiene hijos. Ella ama su vida: sus estudiantes de secundaria, sus amigos, sus ex, sus lecciones de guitarra. Al enamorarse de Ali, se encariña con Leila, su hija de 4 años. Ella la arropa y la ama como si fuera suya. Pero amar a los hijos de otras personas es un riesgo que vale la pena correr...
Director of Photography
En 1981, Issei Sagawa fue detenido en París mientras trataba de deshacerse del cadáver de una de sus compañeras en la Sorbona, a la que había asesinado y devorado. Declarado mentalmente incapaz, regresó a Japón como un hombre libre y aún expresa su deseo de comer carne humana. Un documental ganador del premio Orizzonti en Venecia, que se introduce en la intimidad y la compleja psique del caníbal.
Producer
En 1981, Issei Sagawa fue detenido en París mientras trataba de deshacerse del cadáver de una de sus compañeras en la Sorbona, a la que había asesinado y devorado. Declarado mentalmente incapaz, regresó a Japón como un hombre libre y aún expresa su deseo de comer carne humana. Un documental ganador del premio Orizzonti en Venecia, que se introduce en la intimidad y la compleja psique del caníbal.
Editor
En 1981, Issei Sagawa fue detenido en París mientras trataba de deshacerse del cadáver de una de sus compañeras en la Sorbona, a la que había asesinado y devorado. Declarado mentalmente incapaz, regresó a Japón como un hombre libre y aún expresa su deseo de comer carne humana. Un documental ganador del premio Orizzonti en Venecia, que se introduce en la intimidad y la compleja psique del caníbal.
Sound
En 1981, Issei Sagawa fue detenido en París mientras trataba de deshacerse del cadáver de una de sus compañeras en la Sorbona, a la que había asesinado y devorado. Declarado mentalmente incapaz, regresó a Japón como un hombre libre y aún expresa su deseo de comer carne humana. Un documental ganador del premio Orizzonti en Venecia, que se introduce en la intimidad y la compleja psique del caníbal.
Director
En 1981, Issei Sagawa fue detenido en París mientras trataba de deshacerse del cadáver de una de sus compañeras en la Sorbona, a la que había asesinado y devorado. Declarado mentalmente incapaz, regresó a Japón como un hombre libre y aún expresa su deseo de comer carne humana. Un documental ganador del premio Orizzonti en Venecia, que se introduce en la intimidad y la compleja psique del caníbal.
Director
A two-channel installation utilizing both digital video and 16mm film, Commensal focuses on the controversial figure of Issei Sagawa, who gained notoriety in 1981 when, as a graduate student in Paris, he murdered a fellow student and engaged in acts of cannibalism. After his release from a mental institution, Sagawa returned to Japan, and later appeared in innumerable documentaries and sexploitation films. In contrast to earlier journalistic documentaries on Sagawa, the film suspends moral judgment and explores a realm that eludes classification as either “documentary” or “pure fiction,” to instead chart the ambiguous territory between crime, fantasy, and social realities, between an individual and the economy of his public persona.
Editor
Works with sound recordings of Dion McGregor, who became famous for talking in his sleep.
Cinematography
Works with sound recordings of Dion McGregor, who became famous for talking in his sleep.
Producer
Works with sound recordings of Dion McGregor, who became famous for talking in his sleep.
Director
Works with sound recordings of Dion McGregor, who became famous for talking in his sleep.
Producer
Maya is a photographer. She takes photos related to the eyeball. Kunio is a neurosurgeon and an independent documentary film director. He is interested on making a documentary about Maya. A mysterious eyeball collector watches for Maya's own eyeballs.
Director
“Ah humanity! reflects on the fragility and folly of humanity in the age of the Anthropocene. Taking the 3/11/11 disaster of Fukushima as its point of departure, it evokes an apocalyptic vision of modernity, and our predilection for historical amnesia and futuristic flights of fancy. Shot on a telephone through a handheld telescope, at once close to and far from its subject, the audio composition combines excerpts from Japanese genbaku film soundtracks, audio recordings from scientific seismic laboratories, and location sound.”—Ernst Karel, Verena Paravel & Lucien Castaing-Taylor
Director
A short companion to Leviathan, set inside the fishing vessel.
Producer
A documentary about a group of pilgrims who travel to Nepal to worship at the legendary Manakamana temple.
Editor
En las mismas aguas donde el Pequod de Melville persiguió a Moby Dick, somos testigos del choque colaborativo entre el hombre, la naturaleza y la máquina. Filmada en doce cámaras – fijas y lanzadas, pasadas de pescador a cineasta – éste es un retrato cósmico de uno de los quehaceres más antiguos de la humanidad. (FILMAFFINITY)
Director of Photography
En las mismas aguas donde el Pequod de Melville persiguió a Moby Dick, somos testigos del choque colaborativo entre el hombre, la naturaleza y la máquina. Filmada en doce cámaras – fijas y lanzadas, pasadas de pescador a cineasta – éste es un retrato cósmico de uno de los quehaceres más antiguos de la humanidad. (FILMAFFINITY)
Producer
En las mismas aguas donde el Pequod de Melville persiguió a Moby Dick, somos testigos del choque colaborativo entre el hombre, la naturaleza y la máquina. Filmada en doce cámaras – fijas y lanzadas, pasadas de pescador a cineasta – éste es un retrato cósmico de uno de los quehaceres más antiguos de la humanidad. (FILMAFFINITY)
Writer
En las mismas aguas donde el Pequod de Melville persiguió a Moby Dick, somos testigos del choque colaborativo entre el hombre, la naturaleza y la máquina. Filmada en doce cámaras – fijas y lanzadas, pasadas de pescador a cineasta – éste es un retrato cósmico de uno de los quehaceres más antiguos de la humanidad. (FILMAFFINITY)
Director
En las mismas aguas donde el Pequod de Melville persiguió a Moby Dick, somos testigos del choque colaborativo entre el hombre, la naturaleza y la máquina. Filmada en doce cámaras – fijas y lanzadas, pasadas de pescador a cineasta – éste es un retrato cósmico de uno de los quehaceres más antiguos de la humanidad. (FILMAFFINITY)
Director
A portrayal of a hidden enclave of auto shops and junkyards fated for demolition in the shadow of a new baseball stadium in Queens. The film observes this vibrant community of immigrants – where wrecks, refuse, and recycling form a thriving commerce – as it struggles for daily survival and contests New York City's development scheme.
Director
Ephemeral encounters recorded during a walk beneath the elevated tracks of the No. 7 subway line in New York City.
