Jean Painlevé as the reference to develop a surrealist nature documentarie
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https://doi.org/10.24310/Fotocinema.2023.vi27.16346Keywords:
Nature documentaries, Jean Painlevé, surrealism, science popularization, cinema history, nature narrativesAbstract
Jean Painlevé (1902-1989) was a nature documentarie director close to cinema movements, such as surrealism or nouvelle vague, and to science, mostly biology. This paper introduces Painlevé and his ouvre in Spanish and proposes that he is the main reference from a surrealist movement within nature documenteries’ History. To achieve this, the study presents an updated Spanish state of the art and a brief biography centered on his relation to cinema movements. Furthermore, using Painlevé’s figure as a cornerstone, it studies different European authors. Research shows how the surrealist aesthetic in nature documentaries is not spontaneous, but an evolution. This aesthetic is called “surrealist nature documentaries” and is addressed through three main techniques: microcinematography, time alterations and use of laboratories for recording.
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