Véréna Paravel (born 21 April 1971 in Neuchâtel, Switzerland) is a French anthropologist and artist who works in film, video, and photography.

Biography

Verena Paravel was born in 1971. She is an anthropologist, artist and filmmaker who works in the

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at Harvard University in Cambridge, USA, and in Paris, France. Her work is in the permanent collection of New York's

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, and has been exhibited at the

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, the

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and elsewhere. Her award-winning films and videos have been exhibited at Berlin, Locarno, New York, Toronto, Venice and various other film festivals. Paravel collaborates with anthropologist and artist

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in film, video, and installation. The film was shot on a trawler and it used only sounds and images taken on board. Their film ''

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'' was released theatrically in the United States, United Kingdom, Mexico, Canada, France, Germany, Austria, and Japan, and won the FIPRESCI (International Film Critics) Award, a

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Award, and the Los Angeles Film Critics' Circle Douglas Edwards Independent and Experimental Film Award. ''Still Life/ Nature Morte'' and twelve of their other moving image works were included in the 2014 Whitney Museum Biennial. In 2017, Paravel and Castaing-Taylor's film ''somniloquies'', a feature-length film about dreams, desire, and the vulnerability of the human body, premiered at the

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. Also in 2017 Paravel and Castaing-Taylor's film ''Caniba'', a feature-length film that reflects on the discomfiting significance of cannibalistic desire in human history and culture, premiered at the Venice International Film Festival where it was awarded the Special Orizzonti Jury Prize. Earlier films by Paravel include ''7 Queens'' (2008), a reflection on ephemeral encounters recorded during a walk beneath the elevated tracks of the No. 7 subway line in New York City, and ''Interface Series ''(2008-2010), a series of five videos filmed entirely through Skype.

Filmography

* ''With Such a Wistful Eye'', Interface Series #1 (2008) * ''7 Queens'' (2008) * ''I Only See Problems'', Interface Series #2 (2009) * ''Foreign Parts'' (2010), co-directed with J.P. Sniadecki. * ''Presented with Severe Pain'', Interface Series #5 (2010) * ''I Have No Friends'', Interface Series #4 (2010) * ''Habitat in 2009'', Interface Series #3 (2010) * ''

'' (2012), co-directed with Lucien Castaing-Taylor. * ''He Maketh A Path To Shine After Him, One Would Think The Deep To Be Hoary'' (2013), co-directed with Lucien Castaing-Taylor. * ''Still Life'' (2013), co-directed with Lucien Castaing-Taylor. * ''The Last Judgment'' (2013), co-directed with Lucien Castaing-Taylor. * ''Spirits Still'' (2013), co-directed with Lucien Castaing-Taylor. * ''Ah, humanity!'' (2015), co-directed with Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Ernst Karel. * ''Caniba'' (2017), co-directed with Lucien Castaing-Taylor. * ''Commensal'' (2017), co-directed with Lucien Castaing-Taylor. * ''somniloquies'' (2017), co-directed with Lucien Castaing-Taylor. * ''

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'' (2022), co-directed with Lucien Castaing-Taylor.

References

External links

Verena Paravel's Leviathan on MoMA Learning
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