De humani corporis fabrica

The film may unsettle those sensitive to medical procedures, as it features scenes like a caesarian section and penile examination. The filmmakers aren't deliberately provocative but respectful of the profession. The film captures candid conversations between surgeons and assistants on budget and staffing issues and even philosophical reflections on human frailty. It aims to provide a clear vision of death and dying while appreciating medical professionals and the human body's wonder.

The filmmakers capture the hubris and the care of modern medical technology, and greatly succeed in putting into question the way in which our relationship to and perception of the human body cannot be divorced from the instrument-equipped means for knowing it, which in a way MAKE that body and its organs, and via an uncanny relationship between interior and exterior. These filmmakers really do marry their philosophical and ethnographic concerns with a singular aesthetic and technical approach.