Jean Painlevé Movies

Mathusalem (or Methuselah) is a 1922 play by Ivan Goll, considered a precursor of the theater of the absurd. The 1927 run of the play saw five sequenc...

This documentary about the life and work of filmmaker Jean Painlevé was originally presented in eight parts on French television. It was edited to rem...

An enthusiastic grandfather sits with children in a Parisian park talking about pigeons. First. their physical appearance—eye, wings and tail, and col...