Lucien Castaing-Taylor

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1966-01-10 (59 years old)

Place of Birth

Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK

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 reco...

Acting

Production

2009

Sweetgrass

as Director

2012

Leviathan

as Director of Photography

2012

Leviathan

as Producer

2012

Leviathan

as Writer

2012

Leviathan

as Editor

2012

Leviathan

as Director

2013

Manakamana

as Producer

2023

De Humani Corporis Fabrica

as Director of Photography

2023

De Humani Corporis Fabrica

as Camera Operator

2013

Spirit Stills

as Director

2013

Last Judgement

as Director

1997

Made in USA

as Director

1992

In and Out of Africa

as Director of Photography

2015

2012

Leviathan

as Sound

2010

Hell Roaring Creek

as Director of Photography

2017

Somniloquies

as Director of Photography

2009

Sweetgrass

as Director of Photography

2009

Sweetgrass

as Editor

2013

Still Life

as Director

2017

Caniba

as Director of Photography

1992

2013

The Flaneurs #3

as Producer

2015

Ah Humanity!

as Director

2016

The Eye's Dream

as Producer

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2017

Somniloquies

as Director

2017

Caniba

as Editor

2017

Caniba

as Sound

2017

Caniba

as Director

2017

Caniba

as Producer

2017

Commensal

as Director

2017

Somniloquies

as Editor

2010

2010

2010

2010

High Trail

as Director

2012

Bedding Down

as Director

2022

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