L'Oceans en Danger! Jacques Perrin et Jacques Cluzaud

Rarement des images auront autant donné l’impression de nager en communion avec les multiples animaux qui peuplent les mers de notre globe. Il faut dire qu’avec Le Peuple Migrateur, Jacques Perrin et Jacques Cluzaud nous avaient fait déjà voler auprès des oiseaux qui entament un long périple lors des changements de saisons. Pour ces deux cinéastes fascinés par la nature, se pencher sur les océans ne pouvait que s’imposer. Le film qui découle de leur démarche, et qui s’intitule très logiquement Océans, sortira en début d’année prochaine sur les écrans européens (bande-annonce ci-dessous).

ESA supports the European film launch of 'Oceans' - Jacques Perrin

Oceans cover nearly three-quarters of Earth's surface, yet they remain the least explored territories of our planet.

Oceans, a new film produced by filmmaker Jacques Perrin, captures the mysterious and fascinating marine world like never before.

ESA supported the production of the film by providing views of our oceans from space, advice from Earth-monitoring experts and the use of Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.

"Images play an irreplaceable role in communicating to our minds. The images that Jacques Perrin has brought together in his film are a hymn to life and to the ocean, the source of all life, the regulator of our climate and the guardian of diversity.

Outer space is a privileged place from which to observe, understand and verify the way our oceans are evolving on a truly planetary scale. Ocean and Space, two dimensions still largely unknown, hold at one and the same time the secrets of our origins and of our future," ESA Director General Jean-Jacques Dordain said.

A tradition of commitment to nature and the environment

Employing the same style as their critically-acclaimed film Winged Migration about the astonishing journey birds make annually, French filmmakers Jacques Perrin and Jacques Cluzaud take the public on a journey using new filming techniques, from the polar wastes to the tropics, to the heart of the oceans and their storms to the discovery of little known and largely ignored marine creatures.

"Travelling at 10 knots through the heart of a hunting shoal of tuna, accompanying dolphins in their clownish escapades, swimming shoulder-to-fin with the great white shark … the film Oceans is about being a fish among fish," explained Jacques Perrin.

Oceans will be released in cinemas across France, Belgium and Switzerland at the end of January 2010 and in a host of other European countries between February and May 2010.