Lucien Castaing-Taylor

Cannes

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.

2022.06.04

CRÍTICAS

TIFF 2017: WAVELENGHTS. CANIBA DE LUCIEN CASTAING-TAYLOR Y VERENA PARAVEL

Por José Sarmiento

Para todo aquel que conoce la historia de Issei Sagawa (un caníbal japonés que mató y comió a su compañera de clase Renée Hartevelt, y que luego fuera puesto en libertad por razones de locura), revisitar el casi relato mítico a través de los lentes de Castaing-Taylor y Paravel (el dueto detrás de la extraordinaria Leviathan) es una suerte de válvula de escape, una experiencia catártica dentro del reino íntimo de uno de los personajes más peculiarres y estremecedores de la humanidad, pero a la vez es una lección de humanidasd, de escucha y de percepción.

2017.09.11

Film Festival Reports

TIFF 2017: WAVELENGTHS. CANIBA BY LUCIEN CASTAING-TAYLOR AND VERENA PARAVEL

By José Sarmiento Hinojosa

As someone who knows the story of Issei Sagawa (a Japanese cannibal who killed and ate his classmate Renée Hartevelt, and was subsequently released by reasons of insanity), revisiting the almost mythical tale yet again trough the lenses of Castaing-Taylor and Paravel (the duo behind the extraordinary Leviathan) is something of a release valve, a cathartic experience into the intimate realm of one of mankind mos peculiar and disturbing characters, but also a lesson on humanity, on perception and listening

2017.09.10

New Filmmakers

NEW FILMMAKERS: JOANA PIMENTA

By José Sarmiento Hinojosa

Joana Pimenta, from Lisbon, is a teacher in the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard and a filmmaker with two titles to her name, the films The Figures Carved into the Knife by the Sap of the Banana Trees and the new and exceptional An Aviation Field, right from her experience in the Harvard Sensory Ethnography Lab. We caught her a day before her trip to Locarno, to premiere Once it was Brasilia, her last work as a cinematographer, and exchanged some words with her.

2017.08.23

Berlinale

BERLINALE 2017: SOMNILOQUIES DE VERENA PARAVEL Y LUCIEN CASTAING-TAYLOR

Por Mónica Delgado

Puede decirse que Somniloquies es un paso hacia dentro en la filmografía de Verena Paravel y Lucien Castaing-Taylor. A diferencia de Leviathan o de Ah, Humanity!, que exploran espacios específicos dentro de sus proyectos de etnografía sensorial, en este nuevo trabajo la pareja de cineastas aborda esta vez texturas de cuerpos, o mejor dicho, antitexturas, como si se tratara de entidades difuminadas, mientras se oyen grabaciones de narraciones en voz alta de los sueños del compositor estadounidense Dion McGregor.

2017.02.13