Rating:
8.1/10 by 41 users
Minuscule: The Private Life of Insects (2006)
Short video animations giving a bird's eye view of insects' day to day existence, distorted through a burlesque, yet poetic lens.
Writing:
- Hélène Giraud
- Thomas Szabo
Release Date:
Wed, Oct 25, 2006
Country: FR
Language: Fr
Runtime: 6
Country: FR
Language: Fr
Runtime: 6
Season 2:
Saved by the providential fall of a tiny egg, a mother ladybug adopts it. When it hatches, she realises it contains a little caterpillar.
A small spider tries out different techniques to open a can of peas.
A fly and a spider are watching sports on television. They disagree as to which channel they want to watch. It's duel time for the remote control. Who is going to let go: the spider, the fly... or the TV?
A careless fly escapes from a hungry spider by shutting herself inside a microwave oven. The radiations turn her into a powerful monster fly the size of an orange.
A grasshopper who's just had babies hurries to teach them the most important lesson of all: how to leap properly. But one of the babies is unable to hop and ends up an outcast.
A reckless male butterfly is interested in a female butterfly that is sitting on a crossroad sign over the other side of the road. Can he make it over to her in one piece?
Two spiders are hunting the same prey: a fat fly, lying unconscious on the surface of a pool. The booty will go to the spider that can reach the fly before it wakes up, and without getting wet of course.
A group of black ants get their food - a nice nut - stolen by a band of red ants. But the leader of the black ants isn't prepared to give up the fight.
A mischievous ladybird lures a bunch of flies into a crazy chase inside a supermarket.
A spider is trying out a miniature red toy car when a bus full of flies hits it. The flies are clearly looking for trouble. A ladybug comes to save the day, happy to give a lesson to these troublemakers.
In a gloomy swamp, the insects are terrified by a frightening shape which produces strange sounds.
Inside a cosy countryside cottage in midwinter, two rival groups of ants fight over a handful of olives.
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