An archive-based, in-depth analysis of the surreal nature and science movies of the pioneering French filmmaker Jean Painlevu00e9Before Jacques-Yves Cousteau, there was Jean Painlevu00e9, a pioneering French scientific and nature filmmaker with a Surrealistu2019s eye. Creator of more than two hundred films, his studies of strange animal worlds doubled as critical reimaginations of humanity. With an unerring eye for the uncanny and unexpected, Painlevu00e9 and his assistant Geneviu00e8ve Hamon captured oneiric octopuses, metamorphic crustaceans, erotic seahorses, mythic vampire bats, and...