Véréna Paravel

Véréna Paravel

Véréna Paravel (born 21 April 1971; Neuchâtel) is a French anthropologist and artist who works in film, video, and photography. Paravel was born in Neuchâtel, Switzerland, to French parents, and grew up in Algeria, Portugal, Togo, Côte d'Ivoire, the Soviet Union, and France. She taught at the Université de Toulouse, and received her PhD in Anthropology and Communication Sciences from the Université de Toulouse II. She later worked with Bruno Latour at the École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris. In 2004, she moved to the United States, where she had a postdoctoral fellowship at Columbia University. Since 2006, Verena Paravel has worked with Lucien Castaing-Taylor at the Sensory Ethnography Lab at Harvard University. She has been a Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at Harvard University, and in 2012-13 she was the Frieda L. Miller Fellow in Film, Video, Sound, and New Media at the Film Study Center and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. She is also on the master class faculty at the Ecole des Arts Politiques at Sciences Po in Paris. In 2013, she and Castaing-Taylor jointly received the True Vision Award from the True/False Film Festival. Her works in film and video have screened at Berlin, Locarno, New York, Toronto, and other film festivals. They include 7 Queens (2008), Interface Series (2008-10), Foreign Parts (2010), and Leviathan (with Castaing-Taylor, 2012).

  • Title: Véréna Paravel
  • Popularity: 0.3
  • Known For: Directing
  • Birthday: 1971-04-21
  • Place of Birth: Neuchâtel, Switzerland
  • Homepage:
  • Also Known As: Верена Паравель
img

Véréna Paravel Movies

  • 2022
    imgMovies

    Other People's Children

    Other People's Children

    6.803 2022 HD

    Rachel loves her life, her students, her friends, her ex, her guitar lessons. When she falls in love with Ali, she grows close to his 4-year-old...

    img
  • 2008
    imgMovies

    7 Queens

    7 Queens

    1 2008 HD

    Ephemeral encounters recorded during a walk beneath the elevated tracks of the No. 7 subway line in New York City.

    img
  • 2010
    imgMovies

    Foreign Parts

    Foreign Parts

    6.2 2010 HD

    A portrayal of a hidden enclave of auto shops and junkyards fated for demolition in the shadow of a new baseball stadium in Queens. The film observes...

    img
  • 2012
    imgMovies

    Leviathan

    Leviathan

    6.6 2012 HD

    An experimental portrait of the North American commercial fishing industry through the lens of GoPro cameras placed on a fishing vessel off the coast...

    img
  • 2012
    imgMovies

    Leviathan

    Leviathan

    6.6 2012 HD

    An experimental portrait of the North American commercial fishing industry through the lens of GoPro cameras placed on a fishing vessel off the coast...

    img
  • 2012
    imgMovies

    Leviathan

    Leviathan

    6.6 2012 HD

    An experimental portrait of the North American commercial fishing industry through the lens of GoPro cameras placed on a fishing vessel off the coast...

    img
  • 2012
    imgMovies

    Leviathan

    Leviathan

    6.6 2012 HD

    An experimental portrait of the North American commercial fishing industry through the lens of GoPro cameras placed on a fishing vessel off the coast...

    img
  • 2012
    imgMovies

    Leviathan

    Leviathan

    6.6 2012 HD

    An experimental portrait of the North American commercial fishing industry through the lens of GoPro cameras placed on a fishing vessel off the coast...

    img
  • 2013
    imgMovies

    Manakamana

    Manakamana

    7.5 2013 HD

    A documentary about a group of pilgrims who travel to Nepal to worship at the legendary Manakamana temple.

    img
  • 2023
    imgMovies

    De Humani Corporis Fabrica

    De Humani Corporis Fabrica

    7.3 2023 HD

    An extraordinary adventure through the interior of the human body; or the discovery of an alien landscape of unprecedented beauty.

    img
  • 2023
    imgMovies

    De Humani Corporis Fabrica

    De Humani Corporis Fabrica

    7.3 2023 HD

    An extraordinary adventure through the interior of the human body; or the discovery of an alien landscape of unprecedented beauty.

    img
  • 2023
    imgMovies

    De Humani Corporis Fabrica

    De Humani Corporis Fabrica

    7.3 2023 HD

    An extraordinary adventure through the interior of the human body; or the discovery of an alien landscape of unprecedented beauty.

    img
  • 2023
    imgMovies

    De Humani Corporis Fabrica

    De Humani Corporis Fabrica

    7.3 2023 HD

    An extraordinary adventure through the interior of the human body; or the discovery of an alien landscape of unprecedented beauty.

    img
  • 2013
    imgMovies

    He Maketh a Path to Shine After Him; One Would Think the Deep to Be Hoary

    He Maketh a Path to Shine After Him; One Would Think the Deep to Be Hoary

    1 2013 HD

    An archaeology of both the ocean and the image, this piece reworks the sequences of Leviathan that were shot in and from the sea. Projected at 1/50...

    img
  • 2013
    imgMovies

    He Maketh a Path to Shine After Him; One Would Think the Deep to Be Hoary

    He Maketh a Path to Shine After Him; One Would Think the Deep to Be Hoary

    1 2013 HD

    An archaeology of both the ocean and the image, this piece reworks the sequences of Leviathan that were shot in and from the sea. Projected at 1/50...

    img
  • 2013
    imgMovies

    Spirit Stills

    Spirit Stills

    1 2013 HD

    Submarine spirits of monsters and demons, soldiers and sailors, pirates andwarriors, slaves and serpents, skulls and skeletons.

    img
  • 2013
    imgMovies

    Last Judgement

    Last Judgement

    1 2013 HD

    An apocalyptic vision of the vertiginous intermingling of the sea and the sky.

    img
  • 2023
    imgMovies

    De Humani Corporis Fabrica

    De Humani Corporis Fabrica

    7.3 2023 HD

    An extraordinary adventure through the interior of the human body; or the discovery of an alien landscape of unprecedented beauty.

    img
  • 2010
    imgMovies

    Foreign Parts

    Foreign Parts

    6.2 2010 HD

    A portrayal of a hidden enclave of auto shops and junkyards fated for demolition in the shadow of a new baseball stadium in Queens. The film observes...

    img
  • 2013
    imgMovies

    He Maketh a Path to Shine After Him; One Would Think the Deep to Be Hoary

    He Maketh a Path to Shine After Him; One Would Think the Deep to Be Hoary

    1 2013 HD

    An archaeology of both the ocean and the image, this piece reworks the sequences of Leviathan that were shot in and from the sea. Projected at 1/50...

    img
  • 2013
    imgMovies

    He Maketh a Path to Shine After Him; One Would Think the Deep to Be Hoary

    He Maketh a Path to Shine After Him; One Would Think the Deep to Be Hoary

    1 2013 HD

    An archaeology of both the ocean and the image, this piece reworks the sequences of Leviathan that were shot in and from the sea. Projected at 1/50...

    img
  • 2013
    imgMovies

    He Maketh a Path to Shine After Him; One Would Think the Deep to Be Hoary

    He Maketh a Path to Shine After Him; One Would Think the Deep to Be Hoary

    1 2013 HD

    An archaeology of both the ocean and the image, this piece reworks the sequences of Leviathan that were shot in and from the sea. Projected at 1/50...

    img
  • 2017
    imgMovies

    Somniloquies

    Somniloquies

    7.6 2017 HD

    Works with sound recordings of Dion McGregor, who became famous for talking in his sleep.

    img
  • 2012
    imgMovies

    Leviathan

    Leviathan

    6.6 2012 HD

    An experimental portrait of the North American commercial fishing industry through the lens of GoPro cameras placed on a fishing vessel off the coast...

    img
  • 2013
    imgMovies

    He Maketh a Path to Shine After Him; One Would Think the Deep to Be Hoary

    He Maketh a Path to Shine After Him; One Would Think the Deep to Be Hoary

    1 2013 HD

    An archaeology of both the ocean and the image, this piece reworks the sequences of Leviathan that were shot in and from the sea. Projected at 1/50...

    img
  • 2013
    imgMovies

    The Last Film

    The Last Film

    6.5 2013 HD

    A famous American filmmaker travels to the Yucatán to scout locations for his last movie. The Mayan Apocalypse intercedes.

    img
  • 2013
    imgMovies

    Still Life

    Still Life

    5 2013 HD

    A short companion to Leviathan, set inside the fishing vessel.

    img
  • 2017
    imgMovies

    Caniba

    Caniba

    5.6 2017 HD

    Caniba is a fresco about flesh and desire. It reflects on the discomfiting significance of cannibalism in human existence through the prism of one...

    img
  • 2015
    imgMovies

    Ah Humanity!

    Ah Humanity!

    1 2015 HD

    “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...

    img
  • 2016
    imgMovies

    The Eye's Dream

    The Eye's Dream

    1 2016 HD

    Maya is a photographer. She takes photos related to the eyeball. Kunio is a neurosurgeon and an independent documentary film director. He is...

    img
  • 2017
    imgMovies

    Somniloquies

    Somniloquies

    7.6 2017 HD

    Works with sound recordings of Dion McGregor, who became famous for talking in his sleep.

    img
  • 2017
    imgMovies

    Caniba

    Caniba

    5.6 2017 HD

    Caniba is a fresco about flesh and desire. It reflects on the discomfiting significance of cannibalism in human existence through the prism of one...

    img
  • 2017
    imgMovies

    Caniba

    Caniba

    5.6 2017 HD

    Caniba is a fresco about flesh and desire. It reflects on the discomfiting significance of cannibalism in human existence through the prism of one...

    img
  • 2017
    imgMovies

    Caniba

    Caniba

    5.6 2017 HD

    Caniba is a fresco about flesh and desire. It reflects on the discomfiting significance of cannibalism in human existence through the prism of one...

    img
  • 2017
    imgMovies

    Caniba

    Caniba

    5.6 2017 HD

    Caniba is a fresco about flesh and desire. It reflects on the discomfiting significance of cannibalism in human existence through the prism of one...

    img
  • 2017
    imgMovies

    Commensal

    Commensal

    1 2017 HD

    A two-channel installation utilizing both digital video and 16mm film, Commensal focuses on the controversial figure of Issei Sagawa, who gained...

    img
  • 2009
    imgMovies

    Sweetgrass

    Sweetgrass

    6.8 2009 HD

    An unsentimental elegy to the American West, Sweetgrass follows the last modern-day cowboys to lead their flocks of sheep up into Montana's...

    img
  • 2017
    imgMovies

    Somniloquies

    Somniloquies

    7.6 2017 HD

    Works with sound recordings of Dion McGregor, who became famous for talking in his sleep.

    img
  • 2017
    imgMovies

    Somniloquies

    Somniloquies

    7.6 2017 HD

    Works with sound recordings of Dion McGregor, who became famous for talking in his sleep.

    img
  • 2023
    imgMovies

    De Humani Corporis Fabrica

    De Humani Corporis Fabrica

    7.3 2023 HD

    An extraordinary adventure through the interior of the human body; or the discovery of an alien landscape of unprecedented beauty.

    img
  • 2023
    imgMovies

    De Humani Corporis Fabrica

    De Humani Corporis Fabrica

    7.3 2023 HD

    An extraordinary adventure through the interior of the human body; or the discovery of an alien landscape of unprecedented beauty.

    img