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Zoological Surrealism: The Nonhuman Cinema of Jean Painlevé: An Argument in 21 Images – James Leo Cahill
Who was Jean Painlevé and what does a careful study of his short, surreal scientific and animal films offer to the way we approach film history and film theory? This talk answers these questions through a synoptic pass through my new book Zoological Surrealism (University of Minnesota Press, 2019) in 21 archival images. Through the bias of Painlevé's early oeuvre, I rethink the entangled histories of … Continued
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