This Is Not A Fiction Film Festival

Schedule of Events:

12:00 PM: SCIENCE IS FICTION: THE FILMS OF JEAN PAINLEVÉ
$8.00 (member) ; $13.00 (general admission)

Aero Theatre | ‘This Is Not A Fiction’

“The Sea Horse,” 1935, Dir. Jean Painlevé, 14 Min, France

Jean Painlevé’s classic underwater short THE SEA HORSE uses dreamlike imagery to detail the lives of the titular upright-swimming creatures.

FORMAT: DCP

“Sea Urchins,” 1954, Dir. Jean Painlevé, 10 Min, France

From 1927 to 1928, Jean Painlevé made his first three films aimed at the general public. Shown in ‘ciné-clubs’ and avant-garde movie theaters of Paris, these films were written and edited to entertain as well as educate. SEA URCHINS is one of these educational films.

FORMAT: DCP

“The Love Life Of The Octopus,” 1967, Dir. Jean Painlevé, 14 Min, France

The mating rituals and reproductive cycle of the octopus are the subject of this short documentary by Jean Painlevé.

FORMAT: DCP

“Acera or the Witches’ Dance,”1972, Dir. Jean Painlevé, 14 Min, France

The lives of miniscule mollusks are intimately captured as they wallow in mud, mate and give birth. Director Jean Painlevé sublimely sets their dance like movements to music.

FORMAT: DCP

“The Vampire,” 1945, Dir. Jean Painlevé, 9 Min, 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.

FORMAT: DCP

“The Octopus,”1928, Dir. Jean Painlevé, 13 Min, France

Part of Painlevé’s first three films written and edited to entertain and educate.

FORMAT: DCP

“Liquid Crystals,” 1978, Dir. Jean Painlevé, 13 Min, France

A semi-psychedelic collection of different liquids crystalizing under a microscope.

FORMAT: DCP

3:00 PM: STEVE! (MARTIN) A DOCUMENTARY IN 2 PIECES
Free

Aero Theatre | Q&A with filmmaker Morgan Neville

‘This Is Not A Fiction’

Tickets Go On Sale 2024-04-02 12:00 pm PST

Steve Martin is one of the most beloved and enigmatic figures in entertainment. STEVE! (MARTIN) A DOCUMENTARY IN 2 PIECES dives into his extraordinary story from two distinct points of view, with companion documentaries that feature never-before-seen footage and raw insights into Martin’s personal and professional trials and triumphs. “Then” chronicles Martin’s early struggles and meteoric rise to revolutionize stand-up before walking away at 35. “Now” focuses on the present day, with Martin in the golden years of his career, retracing the transformation that led to happiness in his art and personal life.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Apple TV+

COUNTRY: USA

7:30 PM: DE HUMANI CORPORIS FABRICA / SOMNILOQUIES
$8.00 (member) ; $13.00 (general admission)

Aero Theatre | Q&A with filmmakers Véréna Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor

‘This Is Not A Fiction’ and ‘Véréna Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor: An American Cinematheque Retrospective’

DE HUMANI CORPORIS FABRICA, 2022, Dir. Véréna Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor, 118 Min, Grasshopper Film and Gratitude Films, France

In French with English subtitles.

Five centuries ago, anatomist Andreas Vesalius opened up the human body to science for the first time in history. Today, DE HUMANI CORPORIS FABRICA opens the human body to the cinema. It reveals that human flesh is an extraordinary landscape that exists only through the gaze and attention of others. As places of care, suffering and hope, hospitals are laboratories that connect every body in the world.

FORMAT: DCP

SOMNILOQUIES, 2017, Dir. Véréna Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor, 73 Min, Sensory Ethnography Lab, France

The camera moves over sleeping naked bodies while a soundtrack relays the sleep talk, nocturnal speculations, and dreams of Dion McGregor, a gay American songwriter whose hallucinatory, salacious, and sadistic dreams were recorded by his New York roommate over a seven-year period in the 1960s.

FORMAT: DCP