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THE IRON MINISTRY J.P. Sniadecki 2014, HD video, color, 5.1 surround sound, 83 minutes Filmed over three years on what will soon be the world's largest railway network, THE IRON MINISTRY traces the vast interiors of a country on the move: flesh and metal...

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...

somniloquies Verena Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor 2017, audio-video, 73 minutes A wild orgy, a mass drowning, a dwarf city for rent, a surgical operation that goes tragically awry, a baroque mansion for sale that doubles up as a torture chamber, a de...

Luchando Noelle Stout 2007, video, 67 min. Luchando follows a day in the life of four Cuban hustlers—a travesti, a lesbiana, and two pingueros—who set out to resolve their touching and at-times humorous predicaments in Havana’s gay underground. Luchando...

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...

Lucien Castaing-Taylor Director, Sensory Ethnography Laboratory John Cowles Professor of Anthropology and of Art Director of Graduate Studies, Film & Visual Studies Harvard University, 24 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA Castaing-Taylor is an...

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...

The Sensory Ethnography Lab (SEL) is an experimental laboratory that promotes innovative combinations of aesthetics and ethnography. It uses analog and digital media, installation, and performance, to explore the aesthetics and ontology of the natural and...