Insects Through the Winter

Microcosmos(fr)

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.

Late Anthropocene(xx)

Hand processed expired Kodak 7291, Camera: Beaulieu R16, Lens: Angenieux 12-120mm with +3 Diopter, Polarising filter for the clouds. Hand processed in C-41 chem using a Lomo UPB-1A tank. Still haven't mastered removal of the rem-jet anti-halation layer (thats all the white 'static' on the film). The film expired about 40 years ago.

Summer Meadow(en)

A close look at flowers and pollinators on a sunny summer morning.

Garden Friends and Foes(en)

How to distinguish and deal with various insects that destroy vegetables.

Breaking Boundaries: The Science of Our Planet(en)

David Attenborough and scientist Johan Rockström examine Earth's biodiversity collapse and how this crisis can still be averted.

A Thousand Million Million Ants(en)

A documentary showing the lives of an worker ant colony.

A town without flies(ja)

A teaching film for social studies, which was developed as a new educational subject in 1947. At an elementary school in Hokkaido, children have started a fly extermination campaign to improve school hygiene. In order to eliminate the causes of flies, the entire town is working to improve the sanitary environment. The short was filmed with the cooperation of Mizukaido Elementary School in Joso City and is the first film in the "Social Studies Teaching Film System" by Iwanami Film Productions.

Bugz(en)

"Incredible," "beautiful" and "exotic" are only a few of the words (besides "eek!") that describe Bugz. Everything from bugs you'd recognize to bugs you've never seen before (thank goodness!) creeping, jumping, fluttering, squirming and scurrying across your TV screen.

A Journal of the Outdoors No. 11(en)

Wildfowl and wallabies in the wild, exotic animals in the office.

Way Cool Creepy Crawlies(en)

Way Cool Creepy Crawlies, From the itty bitty kiddy wildlife series. VHS Award-Winning Cinematographers featuring Froggies, caterpillars, turtles, lizards & spiders.

Bug Therapy(en)

Citronella, a mosquito who faints at the sight of blood, nervously waits outside her first group therapy session, while the Pill Bug therapist, Dr. Pill tries to calm a neurotic group of bugs, each suffering from a mental-health issue: An OCD germaphobic Fly freaks when he runs out of hand sanitizer. A Dragonfly couple struggle with co-dependency; she's literally on top of him. A Grasshopper, addicted to coffee, is so jumpy, he launches himself in mid-sentence. A Praying Mantis who doesn't pray because she thinks she is God. A terrified Spider is deathly afraid of -- spiders. And, a perfectly-camouflaged Stick Bug complains that no one ever "sees" him. Throughout all this, Citronella battles her urge to flee - while Dr. Pill implores her to share her "embarrassing" problem.

Nazi Overlord(en)

A D-Day rescue mission turns ugly when a band of Allied soldiers battle with horrific experiments created by the Nazis.

The Awakening of Insects(xx)

When spring is coming, cute and silly characters wake up from their winter sleep and celebrate the awakening in their unique ways.

Tale of a Tendril(en)

A bug’s life laid bare in this charming cut-out animated tale.

Human Experiments(en)

A demented prison doctor performs gruesome shock therapy experiments on inmates.

The Nightwatchman(xx)

A nightwatchman who works at a pesticide plant meddles with the laboratory's chemicals (where he treats a strange garden of marrow-like vines in his apartment) causing evolution to put into overdrive. An allegorical tale showing the consequences of humans tampering with and abusing nature.

Brooding(en)

When wildlife photographer Tara returns home from a photo trip to the California mountains, she's beset by violent agoraphobia. Her boyfriend Matthew tries to get her into treatment as she escalates episodes of self-harm, convincing herself that her house has become home to a dark insect brood.

Insectarium(es)

House of Rot(en)

The mind of a prisoner, expressed through various poetic stanzas, corrodes at the same rate as the house they are trapped in.

Insect Poetry(en)

Stop-motion animation illustrates nature-themed poetry.