MICROCOSMOS, LE PEUPLE DE L’HERBE

Marie PERENNOU Claude NURIDSANY
  • 1996
  • Special Screenings
Grand Prix de la Commission Supérieure Technique (Ex-aequo) 1996

One hour and fifteen minutes on an unknown planet: Earth, rediscovered on a scale of centimetres. The inhabitants are incredible creatures: insects and other animals living in the grass and in the water. The landscape: impenetrable forest, tufts of grass, drops of dew as big as balloons… A land where the animals walk on water, stroll with their head down and fall without fear from over a hundred times their height, slowed down only by the resistance of the air. In this world the hourglass of time moves faster: one hour equals one day, one day equals one season, one season equals one lifetime. This is a voyage from the inside, leading the spectator to the heart of the action, as though he/she was the size of an insect. In making the spectator forget their human condition – within the fram

Directed by : Marie PERENNOU, Claude NURIDSANY
Country: France
Duration: 75

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