Movies: Insect

An ant colony finds that the strange new food source they've discovered may be something more of a curse than a boon....

A Florida crop-duster gets more than he bargained for when he fishes a case of vials out of the swamp....

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....

This short film takes a look through a microscope's lens at insect life....

La vispa Teresa (“Lively Theresa”) is based on a well known song; a girl, ten, catches a butterfly and all the other insects intervene to save it....

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. ...

Redback has to find red peppers in the wood and discovers a bio-industry of carnivorous plants, but gets captured. Red-end sets Redback free by sabotaging the meat factory....

Short documentary about true bugs and humans. Short film is also a compassion practice and small journey from human perspective to other playful ways to see....

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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....

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....

Luís, a married sculptor, starts to make a clay reproduction of his neighbor. He can’t help but spy on her ever since he uncovered a hole in their shared wall....

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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"....

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...

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....

The utterings of a faceless narrator are intercut with the tale of an estranged woodland inhabitant, who makes a peculiar discovery....