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Lucien Castaing-Taylor

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Research and Teaching Interests

Sensory ethnography, phenomenology, media anthropology, post-human and multi-species anthropology; intellectuals and reason; cultural and political ecology; franco-creole Caribbean, Europe, and the American West.

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Lucien Castaing-Taylor

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Castaing-Taylor is an anthropologist whose work conjugates art's negative capability with an ethnographic attachment to the flux of life and an engagement with the pressing ecological and political challenges of our day. His works include In and Out of...

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Caniba

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Caniba Verena Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor 2017, audio-video, 90 minutes Caniba reflects on the discomfiting significance of cannibalistic desire in human existence through the prism of one Japanese man, Issei Sagawa, and his mysterious relationship...

Commensal

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Commensal Verena Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor 2017, 2-channel film and video installation: 16 mm film transferred from 8 mm film and digital video. Film: color and black-and-white, silent, 42 minutes. Video: color, sound, 27 minutes A portrait of...

Linefork

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Linefork Jeff Silva and Vic Rawlings 2016, DCP, 96 minutes An immersive meditation on the passage of time and the persistent resonance of place, Linefork follows the daily rituals of an elderly couple living in Kentucky's Appalachian Mountains. Now well...

Ah humanity!

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Ernst Karel, Véréna Paravel, Lucien Castaing-Taylor 2015, audio-video installation, 4.1, 23 minutes 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 of...

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Still Life

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Still Life Diana Keown Allan 2007, video, 25 min. Still Life examines the role that a series of personal photos that survived the 1948 displacement play in the life of Said, an elderly Palestinian from Acre now living in exile in Lebanon. The importance...

MANAKAMANA

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MANAKAMANA Stephanie Spray, and Pacho Velez 2013, 35mm and DCP, 95 min Pilgrims make an ancient journey in a state-of-the-art cable car. Their rides unfold in real-time, highlighting interactions with one another, the landscape, and this strange new mode...

Yumen

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Yumen Xu Ruotao, J.P. Sniadecki, and Huang Xiang 2013, 65 mins. YUMEN combines ghost stories and “ruin porn” to form a celluloid psycho-collage of wandering souls seeking connection with one another and a lost collective history among the frozen remnants...

De Humani Corporis Fabrica

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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...