The Sounds of Science
Painleve is also know for his films about octopi.
EMPAC has something that looks nerdy/beautiful/cool going on Thursday evening. It's "Unfiction" series will be showing The Sounds Of Science, eight short films by French filmmaker Jean Painlevé. And get this: the films have an original score by Yo La Tengo.
Here's a blurb about Painleve from the Criterion Collection (there's also a clip at that link):
The mesmerizing, utterly unclassifiable science films of Jean Painlevé (1902-89) have to be seen to be believed: delightful, surrealist-influenced dream works that are also serious science. The French filmmaker-scientist-inventor 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 marvels as the sea horse and the sea urchin.
The screening starts at 7:30 pm. Tickets are required, but they're only $5.
image: Buste d'Hippocampe, Jean Painlevé 1931 © Les Documents Cinématographiques, Paris
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