Verena Paravel
Born on 21st April 1971 in Neuchâtel (Switzerland), Véréna Paravel is a French film director, artist and anthropologist. She works at Harvard University’s Sensory Ethnography Lab. Her artwork is now part of the New York’s Museum of Modern Art’s permanent collection and has been screened at several festivals including Berlin, Locarno, New York and Toronto. In 2012, she co-directed with Lucien Castaing-Taylor the experimental film Leviathan, about industrial fishing in North American, and together they made Caniba in 2017 about and with Issei Sagawa, a Japanese man accused of having killed and eaten a Dutch student in Paris in 1981. Their next feature film, De Humani Corporis Fabrica (The Fabric of the Human Body) is one of the 20 projects competing in the special “The Films After Tomorrow” section of the 2020 Locarno Film Festival.
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Leviathan
By embarking on a trawler to document one of mankind's oldest endeavours, in a stream of extraordinary images, Véréna Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor capture the collaborative clash of man, nature, and machine. Shot on a dozen digital cameras – tossed and tethered, passed from fisherman to filmmaker, merging sea and sky – this documentary alerts us to the dangers of intensive fishing while a...
Leviathan
By embarking on a trawler to document one of mankind's oldest endeavours, in a stream of extraordinary images, Véréna Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor capture the collaborative clash of man, nature, and machine. Shot on a dozen digital cameras – tossed and tethered, passed from fisherman to filmmaker, merging sea and sky – this documentary alerts us to the dangers of intensive fishing while a...
