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Jean Painlevé (November 1902 - July 1989)
Advocating the credo "science is fiction," Painlevé managed to scandalize both the scientific and the cinematographic world with a cinema designed to entertain as well as edify. He portrayed sea horses, vampire bats, skeleton shrimps, and fanworms as endowed with human traits — the erotic, the comical, and the savage. Painlevé single-handedly established a unique kind of cinema, the "scientific-poetic cinema". Wikipedia
A few years ago, maybe even five, we got to see Yo La Tengo perform an original score that they composed to accompany Painlevé's short aquatic films. If you haven't heard the results of their project then you ought to, and soon.
The Criterion Collection released a collection of his work called Science is Fiction: 23 Films by Jean Painlevé - click here to see a clip or to order yourself a copy.
And, right now, enjoy this visually stunning and very psychedelic short film The Liquid Crystals below.
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