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Commensal

Lucien Castaing-Taylor

Verena Paravel

2017

Country: France, UK, USA

Duration: 43 mins

Colour,

Sound: Stereo

Ratio: 2 channel installation

Available Format/s: HD Digital file

Original Format: Super 8mm Film / HD video

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Commensal is a fresco about flesh and desire. It reflects on the discomfiting significance of cannibalism in human existence through the prism of one Japanese man, Issei Sagawa, and his mysterious relationship with his brother, Jun Sagawa.2 channel installation of 16mm and video projected. Film duration: 43mins Video duration: 27mins, looped.

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