Events - Talks & Lectures

An evening of Jean Painlevé films

Introduced by Brigitte Berg

17 Nov 2011

The Space, 7pm, free.

Jean Painlevé’s experimental nature films The Seahorse (1934) and The Love Life of the Octopus (1965) are included in Already there!. Berg, Director of Les documents cinématographiques, introduces her own selection from this visionary filmmaker’s astonishing oeuvre.

We will be screening the following selected films:
- Mathusalem (Methuselah)
- Hyas et sténorinques (Hyas and Stenorhynchus)
- Barbe Bleue (Blue beard)
- Le Vampire (The Vampire)
- Histoires de crevettes (Shrimp stories)
- Acera ou le bal des sorcières (Acera or the witches' dance)

Listen to audio from the event here (17.1MB)