monday 3 November

Verena Paravel

In this mistressclass, filmmaker and anthropologist Verena Paravel discusses an unruly journey — a search for a cinema that challenges perspective, commentary and the dominance of the gaze. Through fragments of her films, she composes an autobiographical narrative made up of drifts and experiences: a cinema that is experienced rather than shown, a gesture of listening and sharing the sensory, on the border between art and sensory ethnography.

A discussion with the audience will follow the meeting, then drinks.

Verena Paravel's films - partly forged at Harvard's Sensory Ethnography Lab (SEL) - have been shown at festivals such as Berlin, Cannes, Locarno, Toronto, Venice... and at international institutions such as the Venice Biennale, documenta 14, the Centre Pompidou, the Tate, the Whitney Museum Biennial, the MoMA, and the Okayama Triennale. Her work combines the negative capacity of art with an ethnographic attachment to the flow of life and a commitment to the urgent ecological and political challenges of our time.

Moderation: Jeff Silva (ANFAA, AMU/IDEAS)