What might a film examining the human body from inside rather than outside look like? The answer lies in this fascinating surgical trip with its unexpected arthouse catharsis, a movie which offers an immensely powerful physical experience for hard-boiled festival matadors. However, we strongly advise sensitive individuals of the film’s extreme subject matter and its equally explicit treatment.
What might a film examining the human body from inside rather than from the outside look like? Two anthropologists from the renowned Sensory Ethnography Laboratory at Harvard University hazard an answer. With their creations regularly laying into sundry documentary taboos, here they embark upon a fascinating journey across a landscape of human tissue; squelching through an unruly sanguineous riverbed, they skirt around futuristically shaped organs and rest for a while by a majestically prolapsed spine. A surgical trip with an unexpected arthouse catharsis which offers an immensely powerful physical experience for hard-boiled festival matadors. However, we strongly advise sensitive individuals of the film’s extreme subject matter and its equally explicit treatment.
Martin Horyna
115 min / Color, DCP
Director Véréna Paravel, Lucien Castaing-Taylor
/ Dir. of Photography Véréna Paravel, Lucien Castaing-Taylor
/ Sound Véréna Paravel, Lucien Castaing-Taylor
/ Editor Véréna Paravel, Lucien Castaing-Taylor
/ Producer Valentina Novati, Charles Gilibert, Pauline Gygax, Max Karli, Véréna Paravel, Lucien Castaing-Taylor
/ Production Norte Productions, CG Cinema, Rita Productions, S.E.L
/ Sales Les Films du Losange
Véréna Paravel (1971, Neuchâtel, Switzerland) and Lucien Castaing-Taylor (1966, Liverpool). Joint filmography: Leviathan (2012, doc.), Caniba (2017, doc.), De humani corporis fabrica (2022, doc.).
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