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L'hippocampe (1934)
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The son of a famous mathematician and politician, Jean Painlevé started his film career while a natural history student at the Sorbonne. Both scientist and filmmaker, one of the first to plunge underwater with a camera to bring the sub-aquatic world to the screen, Painlevé captured the throes of a male seahorse giving birth in this short film. Painlevé was also a photographer (whose pictures are kept in some of the world's most famous art museums), a close friend to genius filmmaker Jean Vigo and belonged to the surrealist movement. His lyrical and instructive animal behavior films were frequently set to avant-garde scores composed by musicians like Darius Milhaud. Needless to say that his films are worth watching not only for their historical interest but also for their strange aesthetics acclaimed by some of his contemporaries like Luis Buñuel.