Click here to visit our new site --> CafeDVD 2.0 Science Is Fiction: 23 Films By Jean Painleve - The Criterion Collection () Rating: Starring: Director: Category: Special Interest, Foreign Studio: Criterion Subtitles: Length: 315 mins     Jean Painleve 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," Painleve 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. This anthology features twenty-three of Painleve's shorts (ranging from 1925 to 1986) in their original form, as well as Yo La Tengo's ninety-minute original score The Sounds of Science, written in 2001 to accompany eight of the director's films.