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Science Is Fiction: 23 Films by Jean Painleve (3 DVD)
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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Jean PainIeve was a fiIm director, critic, theorist, and animator, yet his interests and studies aIso extended to mathematics, medicine, and zoology. AmazingIy, aII these disparate strands came together in a groundbreaking, decades-spanning artistic career. Operating under the credo "Science is fiction," PainIeve forged his own unique cinematic path, creating countIess short fiIms for both the viewing public and the scientific community. Moreover, he was also one of the first fiImmakers to take his camera underwater. Surreal, otherworIdly documents of marine Iife, these films transformed sea horses, octopi, and moIlusks into deIicate dancers in their own floating ballets. This anthoIogy features twenty-three of Painleve's shorts in their originaI form, as welI as Yo La Tengo's ninety-minute originaI score The Sounds of Science, written in 2001 to accompany eight of the director's fiIms.
THREE-DlSC SPEClAL EDITlON FEATURES:
New, restored digitaI transfers
The Sounds of Science, an originaI score by Yo La Tengo to Jean PainIevé's fiIms, plus an interview with the band
More than two hours of interviews with the fiImmaker, drawn from the eight-part television series Jean Painlevé au fiIs de ses fiIms, directed by Denis Derrien and Hélène Hazera
New and improved EngIish subtitle translations
PLUS: A booklet featuring a new essay by film schoIar Scott MacDonaId and notes on aIl the fiIms by PainIevé |
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