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Jean Painlevé, fantaisie pour biologie marine
Jean Painlevé, fantaisie pour biologie marine
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_Jean Painlevé, fantaisie pour biologie marine_ traces the life and work of a man who played an essential role in the history of cinema. This atypical filmmaker, steeped in both scientific research and avant-garde thinking, was close to Jean Vigo, Alexander Calder, Luis Buñuel, and Sergei M. Eisenstein. He was able to create a dialogue between two disciplines: art and science. Thanks to their a...
The Sea Horse
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The seahorse is the only fish that moves vertically. It is also one of the few animals in which the male nourishes the eggs deposited by the female in his brood pouch and actually gives birth to the young. To film at the bottom of the Garonne estuary, the first mobile underwater camera was improvised. This film, accompanied by music from Darius Milhaud, shows with precision and humor the life o...
The Love Life of an Octopus
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The fluid grace of an eight-armed embrace, the velvety gaze of an inscrutable eye… Painlevé creates a fascinating portrait of the octopus, a mysterious underwater creature, set to a soundtrack composed by Pierre Henry, one of the pioneers of electroacoustic music.
Shrimp Stories
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_Shrimp Stories_ is a short documentary that closely examines the daily life of shrimp. Combining a scientific approach with a touch of humor, the film explores their feeding, digestion, grooming, molting, and reproduction, notably showing how females carry their eggs on their legs and the spectacular hatching of the larvae. It reveals, with wonder, the fragility and surprising complexity of th...
How Some Jellyfish Are Born
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Filmed at the Marine Biology Station in Roscoff, on the northern coast of Bretagne, _How Some Jellyfish Are Born_ explores the formation of polyps, as well as the feeding and reproduction of four species of jellyfish. The transparency of their bodies reveals many details of their anatomy, while still holding other mysteries that the film invites us to discover…
Just Above the Surface of the Earth (For a Coming Extinction)
Just Above the Surface of the Earth (For a Coming Extinction)
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A poetic portrait of contemporary wildlife conservation, _Just Above the Surface of the Earth (For a Coming Extinction)_ reflects on empathy, agency, and the role of hope in the midst of a sixth mass extinction. This debut nonfiction feature examines scientists and citizen scientists who conduct surveys of frogs, which serve as an indicator species; study sea stars threatened by disease; track ...
Geographies of Solitude
_Geographies of Solitude_ is an immersion into the rich ecosystem of Sable Island and the life of Zoe Lucas, a naturalist and environmentalist who has lived over 40 years on this remote sliver of land in the Northwest Atlantic Ocean. Shot on 16mm and created using a scope of innovative eco-friendly filmmaking techniques, this feature-length experimental documentary is a playful and reverent col...
Jekyllum
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Humorously described by its creators as “the first horror film entirely made on a computer”, _Jekyllum_ is a pioneering work of computer animation in Canada. The result of a collaboration between the former Centre de calcul (1965-1988) and Centre audio-visuel (1968-1997) of the Université de Montréal, _Jekyllum_ was first and foremost intended to showcase the graphic possibilities of the CDC170...
Formation de la cellule LE
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“Dynamic study of LE cell or Hargraves cell formation (diagnosis of acute systemic lupus erythematosus): action of antinuclear antibodies on neutrophil nuclei, chemotaxis of polynuclei (rosette formation), preferential phagocytosis of antibody-nucleus complex (LE cell formation).” (Description from the libraries of the Université de Montréal)
Phobie d'impulsion
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Presentation of this variety of obsession characterized by the fear of an idea, an object or even a specific act. Collection of observations on the invasion of the patient's field of consciousness by a sort of monstrous desire, on the resulting terror, and finally on the rarity of the passage to action. (Description from the libraries of the Université de Montréal)
La stéréochimie dynamique
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An innovative audiovisual teaching method for chemistry developed at the Université de Montréal by Professor Henri Favre, _La stéréochimie dynamique_ (Dynamic Stereochemistry) was first and foremost a response to a pedagogical problem: how to make students see and understand molecular transformations in space and time, using a blackboard and two-dimensional plans on paper? “Visualizing these ph...
Aux sources de la vie
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"The nec plus ultra of my work is the chapter entitled _Aux sources de la vie_ (The Sources of Life). [...] Plants are wonderfully organized from the point of view of reproduction. It's a marvel of ingenuity, spectacular to the last point! The secrets of nature lie in the infinitesimally small, in the minutiae of nature." (Father Venance, interview for _Le Samedi_, May 20, 1961)
Utuqaq
A poem from the frozen plains of Greenland blends with the technological prose of a polar expedition. The endless white space, folded by ice, remembers the millions of years of evolution and decades of our negative effect on the planet. Crude and bewitchingly beautiful Arctic as a place of magic blending of languages, traditions, sounds and worlds.
Cielo
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The Atacama Desert in Chile is known as the refuge of astronomers: the sky observed there at night is breathtaking. This sky feeds the research of the scientists who work in the observatories; it also feeds, for generations, the imagination and the legends of the local communities. For the deep mysteries that the universe presents to us are what science and belief have in common. A true love po...
Out of the Present
May 1991. The Soviet cosmonaut Sergheï Krikalev flies to the Mir orbital station, which he will occupy for ten months under the eye of four cameras. When he returns, the Soviet Empire has disappeared, broken up, dismantled. During his time in space, one era ended, another was born. Thus, Krikalev became the first cosmonaut to carry out a mission for a country that no longer exists!
Jean Painlevé, fantaisie pour biologie marine
Jean Painlevé, fantaisie pour biologie marine
New product!Subscription access
_Jean Painlevé, fantaisie pour biologie marine_ traces the life and work of a man who played an essential role in the history of cinema. This atypical filmmaker, steeped in both scientific research and avant-garde thinking, was close to Jean Vigo, Alexander Calder, Luis Buñuel, and Sergei M. Eisenstein. He was able to create a dialogue between two disciplines: art and science. Thanks to their a...
The Sea Horse
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The seahorse is the only fish that moves vertically. It is also one of the few animals in which the male nourishes the eggs deposited by the female in his brood pouch and actually gives birth to the young. To film at the bottom of the Garonne estuary, the first mobile underwater camera was improvised. This film, accompanied by music from Darius Milhaud, shows with precision and humor the life o...
The Love Life of an Octopus
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The fluid grace of an eight-armed embrace, the velvety gaze of an inscrutable eye… Painlevé creates a fascinating portrait of the octopus, a mysterious underwater creature, set to a soundtrack composed by Pierre Henry, one of the pioneers of electroacoustic music.
Shrimp Stories
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_Shrimp Stories_ is a short documentary that closely examines the daily life of shrimp. Combining a scientific approach with a touch of humor, the film explores their feeding, digestion, grooming, molting, and reproduction, notably showing how females carry their eggs on their legs and the spectacular hatching of the larvae. It reveals, with wonder, the fragility and surprising complexity of th...
How Some Jellyfish Are Born
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Filmed at the Marine Biology Station in Roscoff, on the northern coast of Bretagne, _How Some Jellyfish Are Born_ explores the formation of polyps, as well as the feeding and reproduction of four species of jellyfish. The transparency of their bodies reveals many details of their anatomy, while still holding other mysteries that the film invites us to discover…
Just Above the Surface of the Earth (For a Coming Extinction)
Just Above the Surface of the Earth (For a Coming Extinction)
Duration: 2h18Subscription access
A poetic portrait of contemporary wildlife conservation, _Just Above the Surface of the Earth (For a Coming Extinction)_ reflects on empathy, agency, and the role of hope in the midst of a sixth mass extinction. This debut nonfiction feature examines scientists and citizen scientists who conduct surveys of frogs, which serve as an indicator species; study sea stars threatened by disease; track ...
Geographies of Solitude
_Geographies of Solitude_ is an immersion into the rich ecosystem of Sable Island and the life of Zoe Lucas, a naturalist and environmentalist who has lived over 40 years on this remote sliver of land in the Northwest Atlantic Ocean. Shot on 16mm and created using a scope of innovative eco-friendly filmmaking techniques, this feature-length experimental documentary is a playful and reverent col...
Jekyllum
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Humorously described by its creators as “the first horror film entirely made on a computer”, _Jekyllum_ is a pioneering work of computer animation in Canada. The result of a collaboration between the former Centre de calcul (1965-1988) and Centre audio-visuel (1968-1997) of the Université de Montréal, _Jekyllum_ was first and foremost intended to showcase the graphic possibilities of the CDC170...
Formation de la cellule LE
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“Dynamic study of LE cell or Hargraves cell formation (diagnosis of acute systemic lupus erythematosus): action of antinuclear antibodies on neutrophil nuclei, chemotaxis of polynuclei (rosette formation), preferential phagocytosis of antibody-nucleus complex (LE cell formation).” (Description from the libraries of the Université de Montréal)
Phobie d'impulsion
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Presentation of this variety of obsession characterized by the fear of an idea, an object or even a specific act. Collection of observations on the invasion of the patient's field of consciousness by a sort of monstrous desire, on the resulting terror, and finally on the rarity of the passage to action. (Description from the libraries of the Université de Montréal)
La stéréochimie dynamique
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An innovative audiovisual teaching method for chemistry developed at the Université de Montréal by Professor Henri Favre, _La stéréochimie dynamique_ (Dynamic Stereochemistry) was first and foremost a response to a pedagogical problem: how to make students see and understand molecular transformations in space and time, using a blackboard and two-dimensional plans on paper? “Visualizing these ph...
Aux sources de la vie
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"The nec plus ultra of my work is the chapter entitled _Aux sources de la vie_ (The Sources of Life). [...] Plants are wonderfully organized from the point of view of reproduction. It's a marvel of ingenuity, spectacular to the last point! The secrets of nature lie in the infinitesimally small, in the minutiae of nature." (Father Venance, interview for _Le Samedi_, May 20, 1961)
Utuqaq
A poem from the frozen plains of Greenland blends with the technological prose of a polar expedition. The endless white space, folded by ice, remembers the millions of years of evolution and decades of our negative effect on the planet. Crude and bewitchingly beautiful Arctic as a place of magic blending of languages, traditions, sounds and worlds.
Cielo
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The Atacama Desert in Chile is known as the refuge of astronomers: the sky observed there at night is breathtaking. This sky feeds the research of the scientists who work in the observatories; it also feeds, for generations, the imagination and the legends of the local communities. For the deep mysteries that the universe presents to us are what science and belief have in common. A true love po...
Out of the Present
May 1991. The Soviet cosmonaut Sergheï Krikalev flies to the Mir orbital station, which he will occupy for ten months under the eye of four cameras. When he returns, the Soviet Empire has disappeared, broken up, dismantled. During his time in space, one era ended, another was born. Thus, Krikalev became the first cosmonaut to carry out a mission for a country that no longer exists!
