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Jean Painlevé was a French filmmaker and biologist born in Paris in 1902 and died on July 2, 1989. An anarchist by conviction, he studied zoology and biology at the Sorbonne. He soon became interested in cinema and the innovative techniques that enabled him to film subjects that were often very small. Between 1925 and 1986, he made over 200 films, most of them devoted to underwater fauna. The filmmaker brought a poetic dimension to a genre usually shunned by cinephiles, and scored his greatest public success with "L'Hippocampe" in 1933. When war broke out, he suspended all cinematic activity to join the Resistance. His film "Le Vampire" (1945) is an allegory of Nazism through a zoological document about a South American bat. The soundtracks ( jazz and musique concrète) and commentary contribute to the lyricism of his films. To produce and distribute his films, Jean Painlevé manages and directs "Les Documents Cinématographiques" and "L'Institut de Cinématographie Scientifique".

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  • Author of more than 200 educational films, Jean Painlevé weaves a unique link between technological innovations in the field of scientific cinema and avant-garde poetic flights close to Jean Vigo, Serguei Eisenstein, Antonin Artaud and the surrealists.

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  • Author of more than 200 educational films, Jean Painlevé weaves a unique link between technological innovations in the field of scientific cinema and avant-garde poetic flights close to Jean Vigo, Serguei Eisenstein, Antonin Artaud and the surrealists.

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  • Author of more than 200 educational films, Jean Painlevé weaves a unique link between technological innovations in the field of scientific cinema and avant-garde poetic flights close to Jean Vigo, Serguei Eisenstein, Antonin Artaud and the surrealists.

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  • Brochure published on the occasion of the presentation by Jean Painlevé films at Cine-MBXA 9 March 1983.

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