Harvard filmmakers in Berlin
After a few Crimson-tinted triumphs at the Sundance Film Festival last month, more awards may be ahead for some Harvard filmmakers — fellows, professors, students, and graduates — who are showing, speaking, and mingling at the Berlinale, the Berlin International Film Festival. The glittery winter festival, in its 63nd year, will be held through Feb. 17. It commonly showcases 400 films and brings together 20,000 cinema professionals. Among them this year are Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Verena Paravel, both at Harvard’s Sensory Ethnography Lab. They will screen their co-directed “Leviathan” (2012), a wordless, sensual, and phantasmagoric portrait of commercial fishing aboard a trawler out of New Bedford, Mass. (Paravel is also a fellow this year at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.) On the same program is “Yumen” (2013), set in a near-ghost town of the same name in China’s arid northwest. It’s co-directed by J.P. Sniadecki, a Harvard Ph.D. candidate in the Department...