De Humani Corporis Fabrica

• Verena Paravel, Lucien Castaing-Taylor
• 115 min
• France, United States
• 2022
• Documentary

Captivating body-horror documentary by festival favorites Paravel and Castaing-Taylor on an uncensored expedition into the human body with a custom-built camera.

In 1543, Andreas Vesalius founded modern anatomical science with his seven volumes on the human body, “De humani corporis fabrica.” Now the anthropological filmmakers Verena Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor are following in his footsteps. The duo, known for the intensely sensual Leviathan (GFF 2013) and Caniba (GFF 2018), turn to modern examination methods of medical science and offer an unprecedented, physical film experience – into brains, penises, and swollen tumors. At the same time, the institutions we entrust our bodies to appear as a kind of organisms, where doctors and nurses, together with robots and machines, struggle in their endless battle against all the world’s diseases. Often in conditions that stand in stark contrast to the remote camera’s clinical precision.

- Johan Blomqvist

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• Dokumentär
• Utmanande
• Film om film