DE HUMANI CORPORIS
FABRICA
Wednesday, May 3rd at 7:30 PM
Members $10 | Public $15
In their thrilling new work of nonfiction exploration, Véréna
Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor, best known for such aesthetically and
ethnographically revelatory films as Leviathan and Caniba,
burrow deeper than ever, using microscopic cameras and specially designed
recording devices to survey the wondrous landscape of the human body. More
transfixing than clinical, the film, shot in hospitals in and around Paris,
eschews the normal narrative parameters for medical documentation in favor of a
rigorously detached, expressionistic look at our tactile yet essentially
unknowable flesh and viscera. With its unshakable images of biopsies, cesarean
delivery, endoscopic procedures, and the little-seen crevices inside all of
us, De Humani Corporis Fabrica both demystifies and
celebrates life and death. (France,
2022, 118min., In French with English subtitles, color, DCP, NR | Dir. Lucien Castaing-Taylor & Verena Paravel)
"Extraordinary... digs deep into the human body
and opens up landscapes as otherworldly—and harrowing—as any you're likely to
see. The result is a work of purest corporeal poetry... and a remarkably
unvarnished, sympathetic portrait of doctors and nurses at work." — Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times
"An astonishing dive into the human body. A
real-life Fantastic Voyage. Remarkable. It left this writer with a deeper
understanding of the proverbial, universal self — and maybe with what it means
to be human." — A.A.
Dowd, Digital Trends
"A movie that simply has everything: sadness and
humor, death (at the morgue) and birth (when we see a Caesarean section),
camaraderie and coldness." — Ben Kenigsberg, RogerEbert.com
