Pioneering filmmakers Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Verena Paravel, who work at the Harvard Sensory Ethnography Lab and made Leviathan, return with an extraordinary, eye opening new documentary filmed in five Parisian hospitals.
Casting an unblinking, anthropological eye over a series of operations and medical procedures, the film reveals the everyday experience of hospital life as it’s never been seen on screen before. Not for the faint hearted, the film does show some explicit details of surgical procedures, but the result is a fascinating expose of the workings of a vital institution which connects every body.
