Microcosmos
15 years of research. 2 years of equipment design. 3 years of shooting. One great movie to restore your sense of wonder.
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- Documentary
Overview
A documentary of insect life in meadows and ponds, using incredible close-ups, slow motion, and time-lapse photography. It includes bees collecting nectar, ladybugs eating mites, snails mating, spiders wrapping their catch, a scarab beetle relentlessly pushing its ball of dung uphill, endless lines of caterpillars, an underwater spider creating an air bubble to live in, and a mosquito hatching.
Keywords
- nature
- woman director
- ant
- narration
- biology
- insect
- nature documentary
- french
- documentary
- poetic documentary
- no dialogue
- biotope
- science
- documentary film
- insects
- female director
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- September 6, 1996
- Original language
- French
- Spoken languages
- french
- Countries
- France, Italy, Switzerland, United Kingdom
- Production
- Miramax,Canal+,Bac Films,Eurimages,France 2 Cinéma,CNC,Galatée Films,PROCIREP,TSR,Urania Film,Conseil Général de l'Aveyron,Delta Images,Les Productions JMH,Sivom des Monts et Lacs du Lévezou,Crédit Agricole,Région Midi-Pyrénées,Agencie Jules Verne,Office Fédéral de la Culture,La Fondation Gan pour le Cinéma,Galatée Films, France 2 Cinéma, Bac Films, Delta Images, Les Productions JMH, Urania Film, TSR
- Budget
- $5,750,000
- Revenue
- $1,433,008
- IMDb
- tt0117040