De Humani Corporis Fabrica

Not for the faint of heart – or stomach, bowel or pick-your-body-part – the latest work from groundbreaking Harvard Sensory Ethnography Lab filmmakers Paravel and Castaing-Taylor takes a literal deep dive inside the human body; using impossibly microscopic cameras, X-rays, ultrasounds and endoscopic images to examine our complex inner ecosystems in unprecedented, sometimes harrowing detail. Alternately gruesome and gorgeous, this anatomical odyssey is rendered – like the haunting Caniba (Antenna 2018) and dizzyingly abstract Leviathan (Antenna 2013) – in the filmmakers’ unflinching, immersive style, whereby the body we think we know somehow takes on mysterious, paradoxically cosmic dimensions the closer the cameras get to every detail. Premiering at Cannes Directors’ Fortnight, De Humani is a film you’ll not soon forget – no matter how hard you try.