Maverick Filmmaker Jean Painlevé

From: Journal of Film Preservation | Date: May 1, 2005| Author: | Copyright information

In 1954, Henri Langlois, the director of the Cinémathèque Française, invited Jean Painlevé to show his films at a festival in Basle Switzerland. In a letter to Painlevé, Langlois explained that in the program notes for the festival he had avoided using the word "scientific" when referring to Painlevé's films, replacing it with "avant-garde," which, Langlois wrote,"will allow us to show science films without naming them so."

This was not the first time-nor the last-that the question of just what to call Jean Painlevé's work would arise. In the more than two hundred films he made during ...

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