Véréna Paravel

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. 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 (film), 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

Documentaries

Short films With Such a Wistful Eye, Interface Series #1 (2008) 7 Queens (2008) I Only See Problems, Interface Series #2 (2009) Presented with Severe Pain, Interface Series #5 (2010) I Have No Friends, Interface Series #4 (2010) Habitat in 2009, Interface Series #3 (2010) 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 Commensal (2017), co-directed with Lucien Castaing-Taylor