Yo La Tengo & 'Science Is Fiction'

Last week Criterion Collection released a DVD of Jean Painlevé's nature films called 'Science is Fiction'. I read a good review on The Onion A.V. Club that highlighted Yo La Tengo's score for the films. As you can see from the clip above, it's a more abstract sound than Yo La Tengo are known for, but still has their essence. This is an interesting way to recontextualize older material through the DVD format, and I haven't really seen anything like it before. I wonder why silent film releases on DVD aren't given this same treatment by other artists; I think there's still a lot of unused potential in the DVD format where works like this could benefit.