Highest rated movie: De Humani Corporis Fabrica (2023)
Lowest rated movie: Caniba (2017)
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Looking for reviews of films directed by Lucien Castaing-Taylor? Cinafilm has a total of 164 reviews across 4 movies directed by Lucien Castaing-Taylor.
Movies from this director have generally received positive reviews and hold an average rating of 69%.
De Humani Corporis Fabrica is Lucien Castaing-Taylor's highest rated movie, with a score of 74% based on 15 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Lucien Castaing-Taylor is Caniba, with a score of 63% based on 23 reviews.
Lucien Castaing-Taylor (born 1966, Liverpool, United Kingdom) is an anthropologist and artist who works in film, video, and photography.
Castaing-Taylor received his B.A. at The University of Southern California and his Ph.D. at The University of California, Berkeley. Since 2002 Castaing-Taylor has taught at Harvard University, where he is Director of the Sensory Ethnography Lab. His works include In and Out of Africa, which he made with Ilisa Barbash in 1992. It is an ethnographic video about issues of authenticity, taste, and racial politics in the African art market that won eight international awards. He also recorded the film Sweetgrass (2009), which is described as "an unsentimental elegy at once to the American West and to the 10,000 years of uneasy accommodation between post-Paleolithic humans and animals." He is the founding editor of the American Anthropological Association’s journal Visual Anthropology Review (1991–94).
Lucien Castaing-Taylor has directed films starring Yōko Satomi, Issei Sagawa, Billy Allestad and Elaine Allestad.
Lucien Castaing-Taylor has collaborated with these film directors: Véréna Paravel and Ilisa Barbash.
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