‘De Humani Corporis Fabrica’ Review: Showing What We’re Made Of

The latest adventure in perception from Véréna Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor takes its title from Vesalius’s 1543 catalog of the human form that was both scientific compendium and work of art. “De Humani Corporis Fabrica,” Paravel and Castaing-Taylor’s experimental nonfiction film, also explores the many landscapes and textures of our bodies, as examined and broached within the institutional settings of French hospitals. Through these directors’ eyes, these bodies look wondrous and unsettling, macabre and beautiful, and often uncannily unfamiliar. Read more.