De Humani Corporis Fabrica — named for Andreas Vesalius’s key Renaissance text on human anatomy — is the latest film by Sensory Ethnography Lab duo Verena Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor. Shot at several hospitals in and around Paris with a specially designed camera that permitted the filmmakers to record footage inside the body, through the guts and bowels, but also through the hallways and corridors of the sometimes dystopic hospitals, the film probes through body, soul and the inner lives of doctors, nurses and the life at the hospital. Gutsy in every sense as it embraces the blood coursing inside of us and reflects it through the intense flux of hospital rhythms, this film is the purest example of what cinema can do. To immerse us into an experience.

Lucien Castaing-Taylor (b. 1966) is a British anthropologist, artist and Director at the Sensory Ethnography Lab at Harvard University.

Véréna Paravel (b. 1971) is a French anthropologist and artist working with film, video and photography. Her works have been exhibited at MoMa, Tate, Whitney Biennal and documenta 14, amongst others.