Microscopic Mysteries

„The Fabulous Insects – Beetles“ presents colourful and bizarrely shaped species as well as the largest beetle in the world, in its...

A Documentary on the Creation of OVO, by Cirque du Soleil

This film was produced as an extension of a research film on the metamorphosis of the fly. It successively shows the hatching of the eggs, the...

A story about survival, belief in the physical memory of things, as if still-life was always part of the scientific possibility or of the nightmare...

Shot at two cutting-edge research labs which specialize in the evolution of butterflies and moths, BIopixels is an animated short film exploring the...

UNIVERSUM cameraman Wolfgang Thaler and Bert Hoelldobler, a leading authority on ants, bring us face-to-face with the mysterious world of these...

A documentary of insect life in meadows and ponds, using incredible close-ups, slow motion, and time-lapse photography. It includes bees collecting...

Who knows about springtails? And among those for whom this name rings a bell, how many have already seen them? Yet, these small animals, similar to...

Luis Buñuel’s observation – “You can find all of Shakespeare and de Sade in the lives of insects” – was the...

A scientist explains how the savagery and efficiency of the insect world could result in their taking over the world.