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L’Homme rêve à d’hypothétiques créatures extra-terrestres, vivant à des années lumières, et il n’a pas commencé à regarder l’univers qui s’étend à ses pieds. « Microcosmos », c’est une plongée vertigineuse dans les profondeurs du réel. Une aventure fantastique dans la jungle des herbes folles. Ses acteurs ? Les insectes et autres habitants clandestins de l’herbe et de l’eau !
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Microcosmos (1996)
80 min
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.