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Science Is Fiction: The Films of Jean Painlevé(2007)

Name: Science Is Fiction: The Films of Jean Painlevé
Director: Jean Painlevé
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2007-01-01
Duration: 315 min

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.