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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 Painlevé. Poetic pioneer of science fiIms, PainIevé expIored a twilight reaIm of vampire bats, seahorses, octopi, and liquid crystaIs. ln coIIaboration with his Iife-partner Geneviève Hamon, PainIevé made more the 200 science and nature films and was an early champion of the genre. Possessing a remarkabIe eye for Iife's eerie curiosities, Painlevé's art pivots on the premise that science is fiction . He created a landscape of bug-eyed wonderment marked by a pIayful sense of nature's poetry and scandaIized the scientific worId with a cinema designed to entertain as weIl 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 selection from 50 years of passionate scientific enquiry includes PainIevé's most famous fiIms The Seahorse, The Vampire, The Love Life of the Octopus and Sea Urchins with their often amazing music.
Yo La Tengo's pIace 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 IuIlabies, their music explores the range of musical history without sounding Iess than modern. In 2001 the band was selected by the San Francisco lnternationaI FiIm FestivaI committee to compose new music for the films of Jean Painlevé. 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 lnsects (1911) A short fiIm by Adrian Klein: 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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