Known For
Directing
Born
Jan 10, 1966
Place of Birth
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK
Credits
26 titles
Lucien Castaing-Taylor
Biography
Lucien Giles Castaing-Taylor (born 10 January 1966, Liverpool, United Kingdom) is a British 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).
Known For
Filmography
8mm, archives des Sagawa, montées
Director
De Humani Corporis Fabrica
Camera Operator
Expedition Content
Producer
Caniba
Director of Photography
Commensal
Director
Somniloquies
Director of Photography
The Eye's Dream
Producer
Ah Humanity!
Director
Lampedusa
Into the Hinterlands
Producer
Day Break on the Bed Ground
Director
The Flaneurs #3
Producer
Still Life
Director
Manakamana
Producer
Last Judgement
Director
Spirit Stills
Director
He Maketh a Path to Shine After Him; One Would Think the Deep to Be Hoary
Director
Leviathan
Director
Bedding Down
Director
High Trail
Director
Hell Roaring Creek
Director of Photography
Sweetgrass
Director
Made in USA
Director
In and Out of Africa
Director of Photography
Into-the-Jug (Geworfen)
Director
Turned at the Pass
Director