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Five centuries ago, anatomist Andreas Vesalius opened up the human body to Western science for the first time in history. Today, “De Humani Corporis Fabrica” opens the body to the cinema. It reveals that human flesh is a landscape of unknown and unforgettable forms, which, like all landscapes, only exists through the gaze and attention — by turns benevolent and malevolent — of others. As places of care, suffering, and hope, hospitals are laboratories that connect everybody in the world. The film is a hymn to life, and to death.
Having had its world premiere in Cannes last summer, the latest work to come out of Harvard’s Sensory Ethnography Laboratory is an exploration of the inside of the body as it spills out into the public hospital system in Paris. A film about the humanity of doctors and patients, the materiality of their bodies, and the institutions that slice through them.
Véréna Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor, faculty in AFVS, will be present for a conversation following the screening.
Admission is first-come first-served.