Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel create films that defy traditional documentary formats. Emerging from Harvard's Sensory Ethnography Lab, they focus on the immersive nature of human experience. Their film 'Leviathan' captures industrial fishing through small cameras attached to fishermen and gear, avoiding narration and typical framing. 'somniloquies' explores sleep-talk, while 'De Humani Corporis Fabrica' uses surgical footage to portray the human body. Their exhibition 'Breathing Matters' in Berlin showcases major works, emphasizing the strangeness and materiality of their filmmaking approach.
Castaing-Taylor and Paravel's work challenges the conventions of documentary filmmaking, immersing audiences in raw, sensory experiences that resist coherence and embrace ambiguity.
In 'Leviathan,' the filmmakers use durable cameras to capture the chaotic and visceral world of industrial fishing, blurring lines between humans, animals, and the environment.
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