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LA NOUVELLE VAGUE SCIENTIFIQUE

ALEXIS GORODINE


15th ANNUAL
IMAGINE SCIENCE
OCT 14-21, 2022
NEW YORK

WORDS FROM JEAN PAINLEVÉ
THE SEAHORSE, 1933

"Mystery and miracle of secret waters, the seahorse gives its vertical gait,

unique among ocean vertebrates, a lofty and rigid sadness, masking the
strange suppleness with which, head suspended in the air as though freed of
gravity, it winds its way through the algae.

Everything about this animal, a victim of contradictory forces, suggests
that it has disguised itself to escape, and in warding off the fiercest fates, it
carries away the most diverse and unexpected possibilities."

"The joy of experiencing [Painlevé] films, short cinematic gems that renew a sense of the mystery and miracle of nature, is to unearth a still fertile root of cinema and the revelation that there are film hybrids yet to be realized. Looking back at Painlevé's filmic marvels suggests new and multiple directions forward and reminds us that cinema was scientific before it was fiction."
MARINA MCDOUGALL

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