
CANNES 2022: DE HUMANI CORPORIS FABRICA BY VÉRÉNA PARAVEL AND LUCIEN CASTAING-TAYLOR
By Monica Delgado
Premiered in the Directors’ Fortnight, as part of the 75th Cannes Film Festival, De humani corporis fabrica by Véréna Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor is an immersion in the world of a group of French public hospitals and morgues. Cesarean sections, prostate operations, cornea prostheses, spinal cord repairs, mastectomies, and other topics that are reserved for the view and work of medical personnel, are extracted from their natural space to become a process of observation before new spectators.