Véréna Paravel is a French filmmaker and anthropologist working at the Sensory Ethnography Lab at Harvard University. Her work —screened in galleries in Boston, Paris and New York City — is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and explores evanescent forms of intimacy, mediation, and space in a variety of media. Her films include Foreign Parts (with J.P. Sniadecki, 2010)
 Interface Series (2009-10)
 and 7 Queens (2008). Foreign Parts won seven international awards, including Best First Feature Award and Special Jury Award, Locarno Film Festival (2010), and the Grand Prize at Punto de Vista (2011). A New York Times Critics’ Pick, it was also an official selection of the New York Film Festival (2010), and the Viennale (2010). Paravel is currently on the Master Class Faculty of the School of Political Arts (SPEAP) in Paris, and a Lecturer in Anthropology at Harvard University.

Lucien Castaing-Taylor recently recorded Sweetgrass (with Ilisa Barbash, 2009), 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 has just completed a related series of video installations and photographic Westerns that variously evoke the allure and ambivalence of the pastoral, including Hell Roaring Creek (2010) and The High Trail (2010). Previous works include In and Out of Africa (with Ilisa Barbash, 1992), an ethnographic video about authenticity, taste, and racial politics in the transnational African art market, and Made in USA (with Ilisa Barbash, 1990), a film about sweatshops and child labor in the Los Angeles garment industry.