Science Is Fiction: 23 Films by Jean Painlevé

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Hyas et stenorinques |  Oursins |  Comment naissent les méduses |  Cristaux liquides |  L'Hippocampe |  Les amours de la pieuve |  Histoires de crevettes |  Acera ou le bal des sorcières' |  Le Vampire |  Assassins d'eau douce |  Les Danseuses de mer |  Diatomées |  Les Pigeons du square |  La Pieuvre |  Les Oursins |  La Daphine |  L'œuf d'épinoche: de la fécondation à l'éclosion |  Traitement expérimental d'une hémorragie chez le chien |  La Quatriéme Dimension |  Images mathématiques de la lutte pour la vie |  Voyage dans le ciel |  Similitudes des longueurs et des vitesses |  Barbe-bleue

The mesmerizing, utterly unclassifiable science films of Jean Painlevé (1902-89) have to be seen to be believed: delightful, surrealist-influenced dream works that are also serious science. The French filmmaker-scientist-inventor had a decades-spanning career in which he created hundreds of short films on subjects ranging from astronomy to pigeons to, most famously, such marine-life marvels as the sea horse and the sea urchin. This definitive three-disc collection brings together the best of these, and also includes the French television series Jean Painlevé Through His Films, rock band Yo La Tengo’s eight-film score The Sounds of Science, and an essay by film scholar Scott MacDonald.