Lucien Castaing-Taylor Movies

Maya is a photographer. She takes photos related to the eyeball. Kunio is a neurosurgeon and an independent documentary film director. He is...

An extraordinary adventure through the interior of the human body; or the discovery of an alien landscape of unprecedented beauty.

Constructed from the audio archive of the 1961 Harvard Peabody Expedition to Netherlands New Guinea: In the encounter with the Hubula people, this...

An experimental portrait of the North American commercial fishing industry through the lens of GoPro cameras placed on a fishing vessel off the coast...

Caniba is a fresco about flesh and desire. It reflects on the discomfiting significance of cannibalism in human existence through the prism of one...

An unsentimental elegy to the American West, Sweetgrass follows the last modern-day cowboys to lead their flocks of sheep up into Montana's...

Works with sound recordings of Dion McGregor, who became famous for talking in his sleep.

Interweaving stories of Western collectors, Muslim traders, African artists and intellectuals, and the filmmakers themselves, the film focuses on a...

A documentary about a group of pilgrims who travel to Nepal to worship at the legendary Manakamana temple.

A sheep herder is at the end of his tether as his flock cross unnoticed over a divide.

Exploring the intersection between experimental documentary and ethnographic anthropology, this short film silently follows a herd of sheep and a...

An archaeology of both the ocean and the image, this piece reworks the sequences of Leviathan that were shot in and from the sea. Projected at 1/50...

A throng of believers all crowd together in front of a stage. The speeches have ended. They are enraptured. The 'new' Indonesia.

A short companion to Leviathan, set inside the fishing vessel.

An apocalyptic vision of the vertiginous intermingling of the sea and the sky.

For her medium-length project Into the Hinterlands filmmaker Julia Yezbick collaborated with the Detroit-based performance group The Hinterlands,...

A sheep herder talks to his horse and follows his sheep as they take off for the day.

A two-channel installation utilizing both digital video and 16mm film, Commensal focuses on the controversial figure of Issei Sagawa, who gained...

Combining high definition and Super 8 footage, Lampedusa is composed of interwoven narratives based on a series of real events. In 1831, a volcanic...