Science is Fiction: 23 Films by Jean Painlevé

Science is Fiction: 23 Films by Jean Painlevé

Release Date

2007

Director

  • Jean Painlevé

This series brings together the best of the surrealist-influenced works of filmmaker-scientist-inventor Jean Painlevé.

French filmmaker-scientist-inventor Jean Painlevé 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 as the seahorse and the sea urchin. This series brings together the best of these surrealist-influenced works.

Past Programs

2012