Vareity of underwater footage of animals, studied with a voiceover;
Hyas and Stenorhynchus, 1927
The Sea Horse, 1933
Sea Urchins, 1954
How Some Jellyfish Are Born, 1960
The Love Life Of The Octopus, 1967
Acera, or the Witches' Dance, 1972
Painleve has good fun anthropomorphising, deliberatley being a bit silly, among the analyses of the creatures. This film is visually pretty incredible; often magnified, speeded up, framed to take parts out of context, the creatures reveal themselves as deeply, deeply beautiful, melanges of colours and abstract geometrical patterns. This is so overwhelming I found the science rather impossible to concentrate on; One sits back and falls into a kind of dreamy trance with the movements, so relaxing, of the organisms.
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