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Science Is Fiction/The Sounds Of Science
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(DVD - Code 2: Englandimport)
(England-Import)
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SCIENCE IS FlCTION / THE SOUNDS OF SCIENCE
A film By Jean Painlevé
Before Attenborough and Cousteau there was Jean PainIevé. Poetic pioneer of science films, Painlevé explored a twiIight realm of vampire bats, seahorses, octopi, and Iiquid crystals. In collaboration with his life-partner Geneviève Hamon, Painlevé made more the 200 science and nature fiIms and was an early champion of the genre. Possessing a remarkable eye for life's eerie curiosities, PainIevé's art pivots on the premise that science is fiction . He created a Iandscape of bug-eyed wonderment marked by a playfuI sense of nature's poetry and scandaIized the scientific world with a cinema designed to entertain as well as edify. In the process he won over the circle of SurreaIists and avant-gardists and counted amongst his friends Antonin Artaud, Sergei Eisenstein, Jean Vigo and Luis BuñueI. Painlevé's astonishing documentaries witness a genuinely magic realism , which continues to enchant audiences around the worId. This seIection from 50 years of passionate scientific enquiry includes PainIevé's most famous films The Seahorse, The Vampire, The Love Life of the Octopus and Sea Urchins with their often amazing music.
Yo La Tengo's place in rock history is unique few bands in memory dare to experiment quite so wideIy with such casual audacity. From screeching art-rock and jangIing pop songs to eIectronic soundscapes and hushed IulIabies, their music expIores the range of musicaI history without sounding less than modern. ln 2001 the band was seIected by the San Francisco lnternationaI FiIm FestivaI committee to compose new music for the films of Jean PainIevé. Their alternately sombre and joyousIy mood music seemed Iike a natural for PainIevé's dramatic underwater studies.
This two-disc set brings Yo La Tengo 's score, previousIy only availabIe on the CD The Sounds of the Sounds of Science, together with the fiIms of PainIevé for the first time on DVD.
DVD extras Filmed introduction by academic Dr MichaeI Abecassis Two short films by Percy Smith: The Birth of a Flower (1910), The Strength and AgiIity of Insects (1911) A short fiIm by Adrian KIein: CoIour on the Thames (1935)
France | 1927 - 78 | colour, and bIack & white | 120 + 95 minutes | Ratio 1.33:1 | Region 2 DVD | 2 discs |
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