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Science is fiction 23 films by Jean Painlevé Cover Image DVD DVD

Science is fiction 23 films by Jean Painlevé

Painlevé, Jean (Added Author). Hamon, Geneviève. (Added Author). Elmore, Kate. (Added Author). Meierrose, Carola. (Added Author). Vincent-Bréchignac, Jean. (Added Author). Derrien, Denis. (Added Author). Perrault, Charles 1628-1703 Barbe bleue. (Added Author). Yo La Tengo (Musical group) (Added Author). Gaumont Franco-Film Aubert (Firm) (Added Author). Cinégraphie Documentaire (Firm) (Added Author). Documents cinématographiques (Firm) (Added Author). Pathé Consortium Cinéma. (Added Author). Films Diamant (Firm) (Added Author). Films J.P. (Firm) (Added Author). Institut de Cinematographie Scientifique. (Added Author). Recherches et Images (Firm) (Added Author). Lobster Films (Firm) (Added Author). La Sept (Firm) (Added Author). G.M.T. Productions (Firm) (Added Author). Criterion Collection (Firm) (Added Author).

Summary: Long before Jacques Cousteau and Richard Attenborough, a Frenchman named Jean Painlevé made documentaries that captured the natural world in a unique manner. "Science Is Fiction" collects 23 of these short films. Painlevé (1902-89) spent his life straddling the arts and the sciences, studying biology at the Sorbonne, but also hanging out with Man Ray and Luis Buñuel. Long fascinated by marine life, Painlevé helped develop the underwater camera, one of the first handheld cameras, and high-magnification lenses that allowed him to observe creatures like sea urchins, jellyfish, and mollusks in their natural habitats. Though relatively obscure in the United States, Jean Painlevé's films embrace genre, combining documentary, educational film, and avant-garde experimentalism to create an aesthetic that captures the fantastic by means of the purely factual.

Item details

  • ISBN: 160465144X
  • ISBN: 9781604651447
  • ISBN: 0715515044912
  • ISBN: 5515044916
  • ISBN: 9785515044916
  • Physical Description: videorecording
    videodisc
    3 videodiscs (471 min.) : si. and sd., b&w and col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([24] p. : b&w ill. ; 19 cm.)
  • Publisher: [Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, c2009.

Contents / Notes

General Note:
Film dates and run times from accompanying booklet.
Booklet includes the essay "Going Beneath the Surface" by Scott MacDonald.
Formatted Contents Note: Disc one; Popular films Hyas et stenorinques crustacés marins = Hyas and stenorhynchus marine crustaceans / Gaumont Franco-Film présente ; un documentaire de Jean Painlevé (1927) (10 min.) -- Oursins = Sea urchins / La Cinégraphie Documentaire présente ; film de Jean Painlevé (1954) (11 min.) -- Comment naissent des méduses = How some jellyfish are born / Les Documents Cinématographiques présentent ; film de Jean Painlevé et Geneviève Hamon (1960) (14 min.) -- Transition de phase dans les cristaux liquides = Liquid crystals / Les Documents Cinématographiques présentent ; film de Jean Painlevé (1978) (6 min.) -- L'hippocampe ou 'cheval marin' = The sea horse / Pathé·Consortium·Cinéma présente ; un documentaire de Jean Painlevé ; production de la Cinégraphie Documentaire (1933) (14 min.) -- Les amours de la pieuvre = The love life of the octopus / film de Jean Painlevé et Geneviève Hamon (1967) (14 min.) -- Histoires de crevettes = Shrimp stories / Les Documents Cinématographiques présentent ; film de Jean Painlevé et Geneviève Hamon (1964) (10 min.) -- Acera ou Le bal des sorcières = Acera or The witches dance / Les Documents Cinématographiques présentent ; film de Jean Painlevé et Geneviève Hamon (1972) (13 min.) -- Le vampire = The vampire / film de Jean Painlevé (1945) (9 min.) -- Assassins d'eau douce = Freshwater assassins / film de Jean Painlevé (1947) (24 min.) -- Les danseuses de la mer (Ophiures et comatules) = Sea ballerinas (Brittle stars and feather stars) / Les Documents Cinématographiques présentent ; film de Jean Painlevé et Geneviève Hamon ; (1956) (13 min.) -- Diatomées = Diatoms / Les Documents Cinématographiques présentent ; un film de Jean Painlevé et Geneviève Hamon (1968, 17 min.) -- Les pigeons du square = Pigeons in the square / Les Documents Cinématographiques présentent ; un film de Jean Painlevé ; script et regie, Christiane d'Hotel (1986) (27 min.) -- The sounds of science / (Yo La Tengo) -- Yo La Tengo Interview (2009) (10 min.).
Creation/Production Credits Note: Image/opérateur[s] André Raymond, Claude Beausoleil, Vincent Berczi, A.P. Dufour, Alain Lasfargues, Philip Priestley ; ultramicrophotographies, Catherine Thiriot ; montage [editing], Jean-Philippe Berger, Agnes Mouchel, Olvier Farines, Jean-Marie Fremont ; musique de Chopin, Pierre Conté, Darius Milhaud, Pierre Henry, Pierre Jansen, Pierre Angles et Roger Lersy, Ramon de Herrera, Van Hoorebeke et Jean Yatove, Maurice Jaubert ; sculpted by Jean-Louis, Nicole, Michelle, Germaine Bertrand and René Bertrand.
Participant or Performer Note: Voix de [Voice of] Carola Meierrose [Diatomées].
System Details Note:
DVD; Region 1, NTSC; Dolby Digital mono., Dolby Digital stereo; fullscreen presentation, aspect ratio 1.33:1, enhanced for 16:9 televisions; new restored high-definition digital transfer; new and improved English subtitle translation.
Language Note:
No spoken dialog with French intertitles and English subtitles; in French with subtitles in English.
Awards Note:
Winner, Le Prix du Festival Mondial de Bruxelles 1947 destine au meilleur film pour la jeunesse scolaire: Assassins d'eau douce = Prize of the Festival, World Festival of Brussels 1947 Films for schoolchildren: Freshwater Assassins.

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Genre: Foreign films.
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