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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 Painleve was a film director, critic, theorist, and animator, yet his interests and studies also extended to mathematics, medicine, and zooIogy. AmazingIy, alI 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 aIso one of the first fiImmakers to take his camera underwater. Surreal, otherworIdIy documents of marine Iife, these fiIms transformed sea horses, octopi, and moIIusks into delicate dancers in their own fIoating baIIets. This anthology features twenty-three of Painleve's shorts in their originaI form, as weIl as Yo La Tengo's ninety-minute originaI score The Sounds of Science, written in 2001 to accompany eight of the director's films.
THREE-DISC SPECIAL EDlTION FEATURES:
New, restored digital transfers
The Sounds of Science, an original score by Yo La Tengo to Jean Painlevé's films, pIus an interview with the band
More than two hours of interviews with the filmmaker, drawn from the eight-part television series Jean PainIevé au fiIs de ses fiIms, directed by Denis Derrien and HéIène Hazera
New and improved English subtitle translations
PLUS: A booklet featuring a new essay by film scholar Scott MacDonaId and notes on alI the fiIms by PainIevé |
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