Véréna Paravel
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).
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DirectingBirthday
April 21, 1971Gender
FemaleKnown Movie Credits
17Place of birth
Neuchâtel, SwitzerlandAlso known as
Верена Паравель![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/original/tqLPqwoZswXjvdBjX2L1XOK9pxR.jpg)
Cast credits
Crew credits
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Foreign Parts
Director, Producer![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/yU626BbyIZ4VraJJuFwXHEhcEK3.jpg)
Leviathan
Writer, Director, Editor, Producer, Director of Photography, Sound![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/eezu2KWzjSyh6tcK0hN6JYjPaEU.jpg)
Manakamana
Producer![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/1jQPYlfqDExxdeweEcfyU8Oct3U.jpg)
Still Life
Director![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/29u8ahjwZfXdcORb7EE1zBYqMEu.jpg)
Somniloquies
Director, Editor, Producer, Director of Photography![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/8YRjMGaSD7erHlL9VipAzqATpfL.jpg)
Ah Humanity!
Director![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/29jWQqbENRCfGeo3iM5HPyQwbw7.jpg)
The Eye's Dream
Producer![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/b3qYrT9Z9BbPWXMIZPPWqFKdQhe.jpg)
Caniba
Editor, Producer, Sound, Director, Director of Photography![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/h5QOKdOnvCz6nI31EX81SGiW5nH.jpg)
Commensal
Director![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/wRpD1hUR40Z0so0BAw7cSCrbshN.jpg)
De Humani Corporis Fabrica
Director, Producer, Camera Operator, Director of Photography, Editor, Sound, Writer![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/9lG0bBOSY37IhnSrkQ48LVB3qYK.jpg)
7 Queens
Director![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/xqiaXUvMmkslmcuCFoNWB0K0BTk.jpg)
He Maketh a Path to Shine After Him; One Would Think the Deep to Be Hoary
Director, Writer, Producer, Editor, Director of Photography, Sound![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/4tvt4HoT3IG0SwsVKHmJ7x329Fo.jpg)
Spirit Stills
Director![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/zA9dTrscyX660T6Azbdnn42ULUt.jpg)
Last Judgement
Director![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/k3Nr99uSpmeKd4GV0cphVqRprzz.jpg)
The Last Film
Camera Operator![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/xTQ7URCmLBWkMJeT4G8uyvpciqU.jpg)
Sweetgrass
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