Microcosm is a documentary co-directed by Claude Nuulidisani and Marie Peleno, which was released in Switzerland on 6 September 1996. Using a special microscopic camera, the film shows people the world of insects in the forest and under the grass, which has been magnified countless times. However, people with dense disorder tendencies and relatively unacceptable insects may be a challenge to watch this film.
This film is enjoyed from several aspects:
Technical perspective
1. Sound collection. The sound of the film is very rich, the sound of wind and rain in nature, the sounds of various small animals themselves, music, narration, etc., the technical difficulty of collecting various sounds is very difficult.
For example, the effect of bees vibrating their wings, the buzzing sound of mosquitoes leaving the water to take off, the chirping sound of caterpillars eating leaves, and the action sounds emitted by shells when rolling balls.
2. The difficulty of shooting. Because they are all tiny species, it is difficult to move the lens. At the end of the film, mosquitoes slowly grow out of the water and fly into the air and disappear instantly.
Insects are too small, and it takes time and effort to find them, and it is even more difficult to wait for them to tell a story. Without this movie, the insect world would never have been known to ordinary people.
3. Editing techniques. After watching the film, there will be a lot of associations, or romantic and warm, or hard work, or humorous and witty, this anthropomorphic feeling, is the effect of editing. Editing makes some pictures that originally have no meaning or connection become emotional, have a story, have a temperature, and people have a sense of involvement after watching the film, which increases the ornamentation. It's the credit of the clip!
The film consists of countless short stories:
Story 1: Snail love
On the vast lawn, two snails meet unexpectedly, and they carefully probe with their tentacles, slowly familiar, close, intimate, and finally water and milk. The music is accompanied by Italian arias. Romantic sweet!
Snails are invertebrates, mollusk phylum, gastropods, pulmonary snails, snails. The snail's head has two pairs of antennae, the larger pair has eyes at the apex, and the ventral surface of the head has a mouth, and the mouth has a tooth tongue, which can be used to scrape food.
Snails are the animals with the most teeth, but their teeth are not "three-dimensional teeth". Despite having tens of thousands of teeth, they can't chew food. Because the tooth tongue is a banded structure covered with teeth – crushing food for digestion. Over the course of a lifetime, their tiny teeth wear and tear and passivate before being replaced by new, sharper teeth. Snails have saliva on their bodies, which can restrain centipedes and scorpions. In June and July, when it is hot, it will hang under the leaves and rise until it dies after salivating.
Story two, shell lang also has ideas
A shell lang pushing the mud ball, it happily pushed its dung ball over the mountains, suddenly its dung ball was inserted in the branch of a plant, pushing can not move, with the top of the head, or push can not move, left push, or push can not move, the right push can not move, after all kinds of attempts, observation, finally found the problem, so adjust the direction, use all the strength to eat, and finally push the ball from the branch, continue to move forward. Thoughtful and logical.
The dung beetle, commonly known as the dung beetle, is at the lower end of the food chain and can eat more food than it weighs in 24 hours. Because it can speed up the process of converting feces into substances that other organisms can use, it is of great benefit to humans
Story three: The caterpillar cuts in line
Both teams of caterpillars are moving forward, and they want two teams to become one, so they need to cut in line. This section is very similar to the scene when we humans overtake and cut in line when driving, if you don't want to plug in, you can't hesitate to follow the front, and if you hesitate, you will be successfully inserted, and such a bridge section happens around us every day. The same is true of caterpillars, the queue inserters must find the gap, wait for the slow movement, do not hesitate to insert decisively, and finally successfully form a long line.
Caterpillars generally refer to the larvae of lepidoptera (moths and butterflies), these larvae have a lot of bristles on their bodies, the arrangement of bristles and the order of the life name hairs, which are of taxonomic importance. Bristles are poisonous, and the skin will be red and swollen when touched.
There are about 112,000 species of such insect larvae in the world, including moths and butterflies. Some can be used as bait and fed to fish, and they are often active in places such as leaves and trunks, mostly in spring and summer.
This film is similar to the long biological work "Insects" written by the French entomologist and literary scholar Jean-Henri Casimir Fabre! Ideal for parents and children to watch together, the film can be played in segments, because it is a small story, so it can be paused at any time.
Jacques Behan
The producer of "Microcosm" is the early work of the world-renowned French documentary filmmaker Jacques Behan, which was merged with the later "Migrating Birds" and "Himalayas" into a trilogy of "Heaven and Earth People" Director Jacques wanted to tell people through these three films: We are all on the same earth, we must respect each other and coexist peacefully, and human beings must have a reverential heart to live on the earth.
He has made it clear that he hopes to remind people through the documentary: "Humans are equally important to other creatures, not that we like other creatures, but that we need them to exist." ”
Director Jacques continued his path as a director with compassion. He has been to China many times, and there are many traces of him on the Internet, but I still recommend several important works of him to everyone:
In 1996, he won the 22nd French César Award for Best Producer for his documentary "Microcosm"
In 1999, he produced the feature film Himalayas.
In 2001, he directed the documentary "Migrating Birds"
In 2004, he served as a producer for the musical film "Spring of the Cattle Herding Class", which won the 17th European Film Awards - Best Picture
In 2008, he worked as a producer for the feature film Northern Suburbs 1936
In 2011, he directed the documentary "Ocean", which won the 36th César Award for Best Documentary in France
In 2015, he directed the documentary "Four Seasons of the Earth"
In 2016, he served as the producer of the documentary "Time Journey".