{"id":1132,"date":"2002-11-21T15:49:29","date_gmt":"2002-11-21T21:49:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.saic.edu\/cate\/?p=1132"},"modified":"2021-04-23T18:15:52","modified_gmt":"2021-04-23T18:15:52","slug":"science-is-fiction-the-films-of-jean-painleve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/2002\/11\/21\/science-is-fiction-the-films-of-jean-painleve\/","title":{"rendered":"Science Is Fiction: The Films of Jean Painlev\u00e9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span><strong>Thursday, November 21, 2002, 8pm<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>1934\u20141976, Jean Painlev\u00e9, France, ca. 71 min, 35mm<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>The director of more than 200 nature films, Jean Painlev\u00e9 (1902-1989) scandalized the scientific world with a cinema designed to entertain as well as edify.\u00a0 Advocating the credo \u201cscience is fiction,\u201d he endowed seahorses, vampire bats, and fanworms with human traits \u2014 erotic, comical, savage. His work was admired by Surrealists and Avant-Gardists such as Sergei Eisenstein, Jean Vigo and Luis Bu\u00f1uel, and the composers who scored his films include Darius Milhaud, Pierre Jansen and Pierre Henry.\u00a0 The program includes: <em>The Sea Horse <\/em>(1934), <em>How Jellyfishes Are Born <\/em>(1960), <em>The Sea Urchins<\/em> (1954), <em>Acera or The Witches<\/em> (1972), <em>The Lovelife of the Octopus <\/em>(1965), <em>Liquid Crystals<\/em> (1976). (Description courtesy of American Cinematheque)<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, November 21, 2002, 8pm 1934\u20141976, Jean Painlev\u00e9, France, ca. 71 min, 35mm The director of more than 200 nature films, Jean Painlev\u00e9 (1902-1989) scandalized the scientific world with a cinema designed to entertain as well as edify.\u00a0 Advocating the credo \u201cscience is fiction,\u201d he endowed seahorses, vampire bats, and fanworms with human traits \u2014 [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/2002\/11\/21\/science-is-fiction-the-films-of-jean-painleve\/\">Read More&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> from Science Is Fiction: The Films of Jean Painlev\u00e9<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":198,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[206,423,450],"class_list":["post-1132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-7","tag-europe","tag-monographic-shows","tag-non-fiction"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/198"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1132"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8890,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1132\/revisions\/8890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}