Science is Fiction: 23 Films by Jean Painleve (2009) Criterion Up...

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 and rock band Yo La Tengo's eight-film score The Sounds of Science


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• Popular Films
- Hyas and Stenorhynchus (1929)
- Sea Urchins (1954)
- How Some Jellyfish Are Born (1960)
- Liquid Crystals (1978)
- The Sea Horse (1934)
- The Love Life of the Octopus (1965)
- Shrimp Stories (1964)
- Acera or the Witches' Dance (1972)
- The Vampire (1945)
- Freshwater Assassins (1947)
- Sea Ballerinas (1956)
- Diatoms (1968)
- Pigeon in the Square (1982)
* Optional soundtrack by Yo La Tengo on Films 1-8

• Early Popular Silent Films
- Octopus (1927)
- Sea Urchins (1928)
- Daphnia (1928)

• Silent Research Films
- The Stickleback's Egg (1925)
- Experimental Treatment of a Hemorrhage in a Dog (1930)

• Films for Le Palais de la Découverte (1937)
- The Fourth Dimension
- The Struggle for Survival
- Voyage to the Sky
- Similarities Between Length and Speed

• Bluebeard (1936)

• Interview with Yo La Tengo

• Jean Painlevé Through His Films (1989)