Jean Painlevé
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Jean Painlevé (1902-1989) was the director of more than two hundred science and nature films and an early champion of the genre. Advocating the credo "science is fiction," Painlevé scandalized the scientific world with a cinema designed to entertain as well as edify. He portrayed sea horses, vampire bats, skeleton shrimp, and fanworms as endowed with human traits - the erotic, the comical, and the savage - and in the process won over the circle of Surrealists and avant-gardists he befriended, among them the filmmakers Sergei Eisenstein, Jean Vigo, and Luis Buñuel.
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Amours de la pieuvre (1965)... aka Love Life of the Octopus
Comment naissent les méduses (1960)
Les Danseuses de mer (1960)
Les Alpes (1958)
L'Astérie (1958)
Les Oursins (1958)
La Chirurgie correctrice (1948)
Écriture de la danse (1948)
Assassins d'eau douce (1947)... aka Fresh Water Assassins
Notre planète la Terre (1947)
Pasteur (1947)
Jeux d'enfants (1946)
Le Vampire (1945)... aka The Vampire
Solutions françaises (1939)
Images mathématiques de la quatrième dimension (1937)
Voyage dans le ciel (1937)
Barbe-Bleue (1936)... aka Bluebeard (USA)
Microscopie à bord d'un bateau de pêche (1936)
Corèthre (1935)
L'Hippocampe (1934)... aka The Sea Horse (UK)
Électrophorèse de nitrate d'argent (1932)
Ruptures de fibres (1931)
Bernard-l'hermite (1930)
Les Crabes (1930)
La Daphnie (1929)
Hyas et stenorinques (1929)
Oeufs d'épinoche (1929)... aka Stickelback Eggs (USA)
Les Oursins (1929)... aka Sea Urchins (USA)
La Pieuvre (1928)... aka Devilfish (USA)
