Wk 5 // misc inspirations: Painlevé + NASA comet & asteroid imagery
- annabensky
- Mar 23, 2023
- 1 min read
Jean Painlevé - French photographer, biologist and film-maker
I previously wrote about Painlevé last year in a post which can be found here.
Advocating the credo "science is fiction," Painlevé managed to scandalize both the scientific and the cinematographic world with a cinema designed to entertain as well as edify. He portrayed sea horses, vampire bats, skeleton shrimps, and fanworms as endowed with human traits – the erotic, the comical, and the savage. Painlevé single-handedly established a unique kind of cinema, the "scientific-poetic cinema".
NASA imagery
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Below: panoramic composite images via Curiosity rover of Mars' "Glen Torridon" region, comprised of 1000 images
It has not been the intention for my work to reflect or mimic this kind of imagery specifically, but I do enjoy the inate similarities that are emerging - the idea of mediation of vast/distant/incomprehensible/unreachable places via technological devices; the imperfections that come from allowing digital devices and/or cameras attempt to capture a subject; the material connection that links the subjects I'm examining (volcanic rocks, geological formations) with these celestial bodies across space and temporality...
Some more images (found today by chance after the projection testing; confirmation bias perhaps)
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