De Humani Corporis Fabrica

De Humani Corporis Fabrica
Véréna Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor
2022, audio-video, 120 minutes

Five centuries ago, Andreas Vesalius opened the human body up to a scientific gaze, marking the inception of modern anatomy. This film seeks to open up the human body to cinema. Our flesh appears as a landscape of unknown forms, which, like all landscapes, subsists only thanks to the attention — by turns benevolent and maleficent — of others. Hospitals emerge not only as spaces of suffering and care, but as laboratories that link all the world’s bodies. The film is a hymn to life, and to death.