 Painlevé started collaborating with the monthly revue "Surrealisme", directed by Yvan Goll.In 1924, the revue published an article by Painlevé titled "".In the article, which could be considered a declaration of principles, Painlevé preached the "recording of reality", which, added to the imagination of the screenwriter and cinema's techniques of slow motion, accelerated speed and the blur, can create "a surrealist esthetic".