page_title: Véréna Paravel
section_title: Biography
hierarchical_section_title: Véréna Paravel / Biography
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Viennale 2013: Dokumentarfilmerin Véréna Paravel (Stadtkino im Künstlerhaus in Wien, Österreich. English: Vienna International Film Festival 2013: Véréna Paravel (Stadtkino im Künstlerhaus, Vienna, Austria).
context_page_description: Véréna Paravel is a French anthropologist and artist who works in film, video, and photography.
context_section_description: Verena Paravel is an anthropologist, artist and filmmaker who works in the Sensory Ethnography Lab at Harvard University in Cambridge, USA, and in Paris, France.  Her work is in the permanent collection of New York's Museum of Modern Art, and has been exhibited at the Tate, the Whitney Biennial, MoMA, documenta 14 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 Lucien Castaing-Taylor in film, video, and installation. Their film Leviathan  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 Creative Capital 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 Berlin International Film Festival. 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.
caption: Véréna Paravel (2013)
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