Rent The Creeping Garden (2014)
3.4 of 5 from 63 ratings
1h 21min
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- Synopsis:
"The Creeping Garden" is an award-winning feature-length creative documentary exploring the extraordinary world of the plasmodial slime mould as revealed through the eyes of the fringe scientists, mycologists and artists who work with them. Long overlooked by biologists, in recent years this curious organism has become the focus of much research in such areas as biological-inspired design, emergence theory, unconventional computing and robot engineering, much of which borders on the world of science fiction. The film transports us from the laboratory into its natural habitat, depicting these otherworldly lifeforms using startling time-lapse macro-cinematography to reveal hidden facets of the world around us. Co-directed by the artist film-maker Tim Grabham (KanZeOn) and author and film critic Jasper Sharp, with an original soundtrack composed by celebrated musician and producer Jim O'Rourke (Sonic Youth, Grizzly Man), 'The Creeping Garden' is a unique exploration into a hitherto untapped subject matter, immersing the viewer within the worlds of the observers and the observed. - Actors:
- Mark Pagnell, Heather Barnett, Bryn Dentinger, Tim Boon, Andrew Adamatsky, Klaus-Peter Zauner, Jeff Jones, Ella Gale, Eduardo Reck Miranda
- Directors:
- Tim Grabham, Jasper Sharp
- Producers:
- Tim Grabham, Jasper Sharp
- Studio:
- Arrow Films
- Genres:
- Documentary, Music & Musicals, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Special Interest
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 13/03/2017
- Run Time:
- 81 minutes
- Languages:
- English LPCM Stereo
- Subtitles:
- English Hard of Hearing
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 2.35:1
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
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- Bonus:
- Audio Commentary by Directors Tim Grabham and Jasper Sharp
- Biocomputer Music, a short film by Grabham on the first biocomputer music system, allowing a two-way musical dialogue between man and slime mould
- Return to the Fungarium, a featurette revealing further treasures of the Fungarium at Kew Gardens
- Feeding Habits of Physarum, a featurette on the feeding preferences and dislikes of slime moulds Three cinema iloobia short films: Milk (2009), Rotten (2012) and Paramusical Ensemble (2015) Angela Mele's animated slime moulds
- Gallery
- US Theatrical Trailer
