"Jean Painlevé was a film director, critic, theorist, and animator, yet
his interests and studies also extended to mathematics, medicine, and
zoology. Amazingly, all these disparate strands came together in a
groundbreaking, decades-spanning artistic career. Operating under the
credo: Science is fiction, Painlevé forged his own unique cinematic
path, creating countless short films for both the viewing public and the
scientific community. Moreover, he was also one of the first filmmakers
to take his camera underwater. Surreal, otherworldly documents of
marine life, these films transformed sea horses, octopi, and mollusks
into delicate dancers in their own floating ballets."
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