Microcosmos
“15 years of research. 2 years of equipment design. 3 years of shooting. One great movie to restore your sense of wonder.”
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.
Details
Release Date: 9/6/1996
Runtime: 80 minutes
Languages: French, English
Directors: Marie Pérennou, Claude Nuridsany
Budget: $5.8M
Revenue: $1.4M
Production
Companies: Galatée Films, France 2 Cinéma, Bac Films, Delta Images, Les Productions JMH, Urania Film, TSR
Countries: France, Switzerland, Italy
