Movies: Insect

Luis Buñuel’s observation – “You can find all of Shakespeare and de Sade in the lives of insects” – was the inspiration for this experimental horror movie, in which human actors wordlessly enact the life-cycles of wasps and bees. Its purpose is to de...

Shimajiro to Fufu no Daibōken: Sukue! Nanairo no Hana (しまじろうと フフの だいぼうけん ～すくえ！七色の花～?, Shimajiro and Fufu's Great Adventure: Save the Seven-Colored Flower!) is a 2013 Japanese children's live action/anime film. It's the first film to feature the chara...

Satoshi Kuribayashi and his team filmed the insects for over an astonishing 430 days, resulting in breathtaking images and scenes from a still fairly unknown world. Watch a mantis sneak up on its prey and catch it with its razor sharp claws. Experien...

An exterminator discovers a strange, out-of-the-ordinary world full of insect-animal hybrids after falling through a large crack while he was doing his job....

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

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 of extinction....

In the year 1512, two insects embark on an expedition that becomes the adventure of their lives....

Susan and Ted are creating an insect zoo, learning about various insects....

"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 acr...

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Joe Fly is a stereoscopic 3D short film about a lazy, dreamy blue bottle fly who finds himself confronted with a nasty beetle, a giant mantis and a ghost. A recut version exists called Joe & Basket "Mostly Sports"....

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In this playful essay film, the filmmaker investigates our culture's discomfort with all things many-legged....

Ages before man proclaimed himself a superior being, the tiny ant had developed the art of agriculture — a practice which was later to be the backbone of human society....

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 nutrition and growth of the larvae, swarming and underground penetration, the formation of the pupa, metamo...

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This classic from Rolf Forsberg, in the style of Fellini and Bergman, tells the story of a gardener who decides to introduce ants to his garden, because they will benefit what grows there. He is disturbed when the ants spend all their time fighting. ...

Anita'’s beauty and popularity are unable to hide her from major problems, which lead her to escape from a world of incomprehension into an inner world where her only company are bugs....

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