Lucien Castaing-Taylor Trailers
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Lucien Giles Castaing-Taylor (born 10 January 1966, Liverpool, United Kingdom) is a British anthropologist and artist who works in film, video, and photography.
Castaing-Taylor received his B.A. at The University of Southern California and his Ph.D. at The University of California, Berkeley. Since 2002 Castaing-Taylor has taught at Harvard University, where he is Director of the Sensory Ethnography Lab. His works include In and Out of Africa, which he made with Ilisa Barbash in 1992. It is an ethnographic video about issues of authenticity, taste, and racial politics in the African art market that won eight international awards. He also recorded the film Sweetgrass (2009), which is described as "an unsentimental elegy at once to the American West and to the 10,000 years of uneasy accommodation between post-Paleolithic humans and animals." He is the founding editor of the American Anthropological Association’s journal Visual Anthropology Review (1991–94).
Most Popular Lucien Castaing-Taylor Trailers
Total trailers found: 24
28 September 2013
A documentary about a group of pilgrims who travel to Nepal to worship at the legendary Manakamana temple.
05 December 2013
A throng of believers all crowd together in front of a stage. The speeches have ended. They are enraptured.
18 November 2009
An unsentimental elegy to the American West, Sweetgrass follows the last modern-day cowboys to lead their flocks of sheep up into Montana's breathtaking and often dangerous Absaroka-Beartooth mountains for summer pasture, revealing a world in which nature and culture, animals and humans, vulnerability and violence are all intimately meshed.
30 July 2016
Maya is a photographer. She takes photos related to the eyeball. Kunio is a neurosurgeon and an independent documentary film director.
01 September 2017
Caniba is a fresco about flesh and desire. It reflects on the discomfiting significance of cannibalism in human existence through the prism of one Japanese man, Issei Sagawa, and his mysterious relationship with his brother, Jun Sagawa.
01 March 2013
An experimental portrait of the North American commercial fishing industry through the lens of GoPro cameras placed on a fishing vessel off the coast of New England.
01 January 1992
Interweaving stories of Western collectors, Muslim traders, African artists and intellectuals, and the filmmakers themselves, the film focuses on a remarkable art dealer from Niger named Gabai Barre.
06 August 2015
Combining high definition and Super 8 footage, Lampedusa is composed of interwoven narratives based on a series of real events.
15 September 2015
“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 point of departure, it evokes an apocalyptic vision of modernity, and our predilection for historical amnesia and futuristic flights of fancy.
01 January 2010
A static camera records the coming of day as a flock of sheep cross the titular stream in a painterly pastoral to restore the senses through a tradition of old.
01 September 2013
An archaeology of both the ocean and the image, this piece reworks the sequences of Leviathan that were shot in and from the sea.
01 January 2012
Exploring the intersection between experimental documentary and ethnographic anthropology, this short film silently follows a herd of sheep and a faceless cowboy through magic hour in Montana.
01 September 2014
A sheep herder talks to his horse and follows his sheep as they take off for the day.
10 June 2017
A two-channel installation utilizing both digital video and 16mm film, Commensal focuses on the controversial figure of Issei Sagawa, who gained notoriety in 1981 when, as a graduate student in Paris, he murdered a fellow student and engaged in acts of cannibalism.
15 February 2010
In the monumental American West, we are acoustic eavesdroppers on a man petting his herding dog, while we are visual witnesses to the progress of their charges, as apparently infinite as Rabelais' "moutons de Panurge," across a mythic landscape.
01 September 2013
An apocalyptic vision of the vertiginous intermingling of the sea and the sky.
01 January 2015
For her medium-length project Into the Hinterlands filmmaker Julia Yezbick collaborated with the Detroit-based performance group The Hinterlands, with her camera engaging in their kinetic actions.
01 September 2013
Submarine spirits of monsters and demons, soldiers and sailors, pirates andwarriors, slaves and serpents, skulls and skeletons.
01 September 1997
A film about sweatshops and child labor in the Los Angeles garment industry
11 January 2023
An extraordinary adventure through the interior of the human body; or the discovery of an alien landscape of unprecedented beauty.
12 February 2017
Works with sound recordings of Dion McGregor, who became famous for talking in his sleep.
02 October 2013
A short companion to Leviathan, set inside the fishing vessel.
07 January 2022
Constructed from the audio archive of the 1961 Harvard Peabody Expedition to Netherlands New Guinea: In the encounter with the Hubula people, this work reflects a parallaxing image of the histories of field recording, ethnographic film, and colonialism.
