Lucien Castaing-Taylor
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- January 10, 1966
- Birthplace
- Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK
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).
Filmography
- Into-the-Jug (Geworfen)
Into-the-Jug (Geworfen) TBA
Director
- Turned at the Pass
Turned at the Pass TBA
Director
- 8mm, archives des Sagawa, montées
8mm, archives des Sagawa, montées 2025
Director
De Humani Corporis Fabrica 2023
Camera Operator, Director of Photography, Editor, Sound, Writer, Producer, Director
Expedition Content 2022
Producer
Caniba 2017
Director of Photography, Director, Editor, Sound, Producer
Commensal 2017
Director
Somniloquies 2017
Director of Photography, Director, Editor
The Eye's Dream 2016
Producer
Ah Humanity! 2015
Director
- Lampedusa
Lampedusa 2015
Actor
Into the Hinterlands 2015
Producer
Day Break on the Bed Ground 2014
Director
The Flaneurs #3 2013
Producer
Still Life 2013
Director
Manakamana 2013
Producer
Last Judgement 2013
Director
Spirit Stills 2013
Director
He Maketh a Path to Shine After Him; One Would Think the Deep to Be Hoary 2013
Director, Writer, Editor, Director of Photography, Producer, Sound
Leviathan 2013
Producer, Editor, Writer, Director of Photography, Director, Sound
Bedding Down 2012
Director
High Trail 2010
Director
Hell Roaring Creek 2010
Director of Photography, Director, Editor, Sound
Sweetgrass 2009
Director, Director of Photography, Editor
- Made in USA
Made in USA 1997
Director
In and Out of Africa 1992
Director of Photography, Editor, Director
Credits from TMDB.