Microcosmos

About Microcosmos

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.

Microcosmos is a 1996 documentary film directed by Claude Nuridsany and Marie Pérennou. The film is filed under nature documentary, nature, narration, and ant.

Jacques Perrin plays Récitant. At 80 minutes long, it arrived in September 1996.

The screenplay is by Claude Nuridsany and Marie Pérennou. In the United States it streams on Criterion Channel.

Koyaanisqatsi, Powaqqatsi, and Minuscule: Valley of the Lost Ants make useful companions to Microcosmos, all filed under no dialogue. TMDB voters put it at 7.6 out of 10 across 274 votes and it carries a G rating.