Directed by Jean Painlevé • 1945 • France
Jean Painlevé’s short THE VAMPIRE draws the connection between the movie monsters of the same name and the South American vampire bat. The animal’s gruesome feeding habits are on full display.
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How Some Jellyfish Are Born
Directed by Jean Painlevé • 1960 • France
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The Love Life of the Octopus
Directed by Jean Painlevé • 1967 • France
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Directed by Isabella Rossellini • 2008 • United States
Starring Isabella RosselliniAnchovy orgies, sadomasochistic snails, and hermaphrodite worms—Isabella Rossellini reveals the wacky, kinky, confounding mating rituals of insects and marine life in this blissfully bonkers, utterly singular sho...
