Verena Paravel: Born in 1971 in Neuchâtel, Switzerland. She studied Anthropology at the École Nationale Supérieure des Mines in Paris and at the University of Toulouse. Since 2008, she has worked with Lucien Castaing-Taylor at the Sensory Ethnography Lab at Harvard.

Filmography (selection):

2008 7 Queens; 21 min.
2010 With Such a Wistful Eye, Interface Series #1; 15 min, Video Installation · Presented with Severe Pain,
Interface Series #5; 23 min., Video Installation ·
Foreign Parts; 82 min., co-directed by J.P. Sniadecki 2012 Leviathan; 87 min., co-directed by L. Castaing-Taylor, Berlinale Forum Expanded 2013
2016 Canst Thou Draw Out Leviathan with a Hook; Four-part project, co-directed by L. Castaing-Taylor
2017 Somniloquies

Lucien Castaing-Taylor: Born in Liverpool in 1966. He studied Philosophy, Theology, and Anthropology. Castaing-Taylor is a filmmaker, anthropologist, and ethnographer who works as a professor of Visual Arts and Anthropology at Harvard University, where he is also the director of the Sensory Ethnography Lab.

Filmography:

1990 Made in USA; co-directed by Ilisa Barbash
1993 In and out of Africa; 59 min., co-directed by Ilisa Barbash
2009 Sweetgrass; 101 min., co-directed by Ilisa Barbash, Berlinale Forum 2009
2012 Leviathan; 87 min., co-directed by Verena Paravel, Berlinale Forum Expanded
2016 Canst Thou Draw Out Leviathan with a Hook; Four-part project, co-directed by Verena Paravel
2017 Somniloquies