Since 2006, Verena Paravel has worked with Lucien Castaing-Taylor at the Sensory Ethnography Lab at Harvard University. She has been a Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at Harvard University, and in 2012-13 she was the Frieda L. Miller Fellow in Film, Video, Sound, and New Media at the Film Study Center and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. She is also on the master class faculty at the Ecole des Arts Politiques at Sciences Po in Paris. In 2013, she and Castaing-Taylor jointly received the True Vision Award from the True/False Film Festival. Her works in film and video have screened at Berlin, Locarno, New York, Toronto, and other film festivals. They include 7 Queens (2008), Interface Series (2008-10), Foreign Parts (2010), and Leviathan (with Castaing-Taylor, 2012).
Rachel loves her life, her students, her friends, her ex, her guitar lessons. When she falls in love with Ali, she grows close to his 4-year-old daugh…
A portrayal of a hidden enclave of auto shops and junkyards fated for demolition in the shadow of a new baseball stadium in Queens. The film observes …
Leviathan
Director
2012-08-09
Set aboard a hulking fishing vessel as it navigates the treacherous waves off the New England coast. The very waters that once inspired Moby Dick, the…
Still Life / Nature morte
Director
2013-10-02
A short companion to Leviathan, set inside the fishing vessel….
Somniloquies
Director
2017-02-12
Works with sound recordings of Dion McGregor, who became famous for talking in his sleep….
Ah Humanity!
Director
2015-09-15
“Ah humanity! reflects on the fragility and folly of humanity in the age of the Anthropocene. Taking the 3/11/11 disaster of Fukushima as its point …
Caniba
Director
2017-09-01
Caniba is a fresco about flesh and desire. It reflects on the discomfiting significance of cannibalism in human existence through the prism of one Jap…
Commensal
Director
2017-06-10
A two-channel installation utilizing both digital video and 16mm film, Commensal focuses on the controversial figure of Issei Sagawa, who gained notor…
Set aboard a hulking fishing vessel as it navigates the treacherous waves off the New England coast. The very waters that once inspired Moby Dick, the…
Manakamana
Producer
2013-08-12
A documentary about a group of pilgrims who travel to Nepal to worship at the legendary Manakamana temple….
The Eye’s Dream
Producer
2016-07-30
Maya is a photographer. She takes photos related to the eyeball. Kunio is a neurosurgeon and an independent documentary film director. He is intereste…
Caniba
Producer
2017-09-01
Caniba is a fresco about flesh and desire. It reflects on the discomfiting significance of cannibalism in human existence through the prism of one Jap…
Somniloquies
Producer
2017-02-12
Works with sound recordings of Dion McGregor, who became famous for talking in his sleep….
Set aboard a hulking fishing vessel as it navigates the treacherous waves off the New England coast. The very waters that once inspired Moby Dick, the…
Sound
Movie Name
Job
Release Date
Overview
Caniba
Sound
2017-09-01
Caniba is a fresco about flesh and desire. It reflects on the discomfiting significance of cannibalism in human existence through the prism of one Jap…
Set aboard a hulking fishing vessel as it navigates the treacherous waves off the New England coast. The very waters that once inspired Moby Dick, the…
Caniba
Director of Photography
2017-09-01
Caniba is a fresco about flesh and desire. It reflects on the discomfiting significance of cannibalism in human existence through the prism of one Jap…
Works with sound recordings of Dion McGregor, who became famous for talking in his sleep….
Leviathan
Editor
2012-08-09
Set aboard a hulking fishing vessel as it navigates the treacherous waves off the New England coast. The very waters that once inspired Moby Dick, the…
Caniba
Editor
2017-09-01
Caniba is a fresco about flesh and desire. It reflects on the discomfiting significance of cannibalism in human existence through the prism of one Jap…
Somniloquies
Editor
2017-02-12
Works with sound recordings of Dion McGregor, who became famous for talking in his sleep….