Lucien Castaing-Taylor
Directing
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
Directing20
movieCaniba
2017
Director
movieCommensal
2017
Director
movieSomniloquies
2017
Director
movieAh Humanity!
2015
Director
movieStill Life
2013
Director
movieSpirit Stills
2013
Director
movieLast Judgement
2013
Director
movieLeviathan
2013
Director
movieBedding Down
2012
Director
movieHigh Trail
2010
Director
movieHell Roaring Creek
2010
Director
movieSweetgrass
2009
Director
Made in USA
1997
Director
movieIn and Out of Africa
1992
Director
Production9
movieExpedition Content
2022
Producer
movieCaniba
2017
Producer
movieThe Eye's Dream
2016
Producer
movieInto the Hinterlands
2015
Producer
movieThe Flaneurs #3
2013
Producer
movieManakamana
2013
Producer
movieLeviathan
2013
Producer
Camera8
movieDe Humani Corporis Fabrica
2023
Director of Photography, Camera Operator
movieCaniba
2017
Director of Photography
movieSomniloquies
2017
Director of Photography
movieHe Maketh a Path to Shine After Him; One Would Think the Deep to Be Hoary
2013
Director of Photography
movieLeviathan
2013
Director of Photography
movieHell Roaring Creek
2010
Director of Photography
movieSweetgrass
2009
Director of Photography
movieIn and Out of Africa
1992
Director of Photography