Microcosmos

Microcosmos

1h 20m 1996 Documentary France, Italy, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States of America
Budget: $5,750,000 Revenue: $1,433,008

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.

Director

Claude Nuridsany

Writer

Claude Nuridsany, Marie Pérennou