Jean Painleve was a film director, critic, theorist, and animator, yet his interests and studies also extended to mathematics, medicine, and zoology. Amazingly, all these disparate strands came together in a groundbreaking, decades-spanning artistic career. Operating under the credo: Science is fiction, Painleve forged his own unique cinematic path, creating countless short films for both the viewing public and the scientific community. Moreover, he was also one of the first filmmakers to take his camera underwater. Surreal, otherworldly documents of marine life, these films transformed sea horses, octopi, and mollusks into delicate dancers in their own floating ballets.
3xDVD9 | NTSC 4:3 | 313 minutes | 22.1 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Francais
Subtitles: English
Genre: Documentary, Short
The three-disc Criterion DVD set Science Is Fiction: 23 Films By Jean Painleve contains a 90-minute program of assorted Painleve footage backed by a Yo La Tengo live performance, along with a three-hour documentary about Painleve and the 23 unadulterated films cited in the title. It's those originals that are the set's real selling-point.
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