Director, artist, and anthropologist Véréna Paravel's work couples an ethnographic sensibility with political and ecological imperatives. Her work is in the permanent collection of New York's MoMA, and has been exhibited at the Tate, documenta 14 and elsewhere. Since 2006, she has been working at Harvard University's Sensory Ethnography Lab. Her award-winning films include Foreign Parts (2010), Leviathan (2012), somniloquies (Berlinale Forum 2017) and De Humani Corporis Fabrica (2022), all co-directed, have been shown in Berlin, Cannes, Locarno, Toronto, Venice and other film festivals. Paravel is Visiting Professor of Art, Film, and Visual Studies at Harvard University and a member of the Master Class Faculty at Sciences Po Paris' École des Arts Politiques.