Véréna Paravel

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Female

Birthday 1971-04-21 (53 years old)

Place of Birth Neuchâtel, Switzerland

Also Known As Верена Паравель

Véréna Paravel

Biography

Véréna Paravel (born 21 April 1971; Neuchâtel) is a French anthropologist and artist who works in film, video, and photography. Paravel was born in Neuchâtel, Switzerland, to French parents, and grew up in Algeria, Portugal, Togo, Côte d'Ivoire, the Soviet Union, and France. She taught at the Université de Toulouse, and received her PhD in Anthropology and Communication Sciences from the Université de Toulouse II. She later worked with Bruno Latour at the École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris. In 2004, she moved to the United States, where she had a postdoctoral fellowship at Columbia University. Since 2006, Verena Paravel has worked with Lucien Castaing-Taylor at the Sensory Ethnography Lab at Harvard University. She has been a Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at Harvard University, and in 2012-13 she was the Frieda L. Miller Fellow in Film, Video, Sound, and New Media at the Film Study Center and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. She is also on the master class faculty at the Ecole des Arts Politiques at Sciences Po in Paris. In 2013, she and Castaing-Taylor jointly received the True Vision Award from the True/False Film Festival. Her works in film and video have screened at Berlin, Locarno, New York, Toronto, and other film festivals. They include 7 Queens (2008), Interface Series (2008-10), Foreign Parts (2010), and Leviathan (with Castaing-Taylor, 2012).

Known For

Director

2017
Somniloquies

as Director

2017
Caniba

as Director

2017
Commensal

as Director

2015
Ah Humanity!

as Director

2013
Spirit Stills

as Director

2013
Last Judgement

as Director

2013
Still Life

as Director

2012
Leviathan

as Director

2010
Foreign Parts

as Director

2008
7 Queens

as Director

Producer

2017
Caniba

as Producer

2017
Somniloquies

as Producer

2016
The Eye's Dream

as Producer

2013
Manakamana

as Producer

2012
Leviathan

as Producer

2010
Foreign Parts

as Producer

Camera

2023
De Humani Corporis Fabrica

as Camera Operator

2023
De Humani Corporis Fabrica

as Director of Photography

2017
Somniloquies

as Director of Photography

2017
Caniba

as Director of Photography

2013
The Last Film

as Camera Operator

2012
Leviathan

as Director of Photography

Crew

2009
Sweetgrass

as Thanks

Actor