The Creeping Garden

The Creeping Garden (2014)

A world beneath your feet where time and space are magnified and intelligence redefined.

An award-winning feature-length creative documentary exploring the extraordinary world of the plasmodial slime mould through the eyes of the fringe scientists, mycologists and artists. 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.

Date of release
2014-07-27
TMDB
5.5 / 10 (15)
Runtime
1h 21m
Genres
Documentary
Director
Tim Grabham, Jasper Sharp

Interesting facts

The Creeping Garden is a 2014 British documentary film featuring various kinds of slime molds. The film uses retro cinematography and electronic music to enhance a connection between slime molds and sci-fi films such as Phase IV, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, and The Blob.

Production

The music theme was composed by Jim O’Rourke.

The cinematography of the film uses techniques borrowed from 70s sci-fi films like Phase IV, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, and The Blob, to indicate the similarity between the sci-fi genre and the behaviour of slime molds. To further enhance the sci-fi connection, the film uses retro electronic music and the typeface of its titles is reminiscent of the 1970s futuristic fonts.

According to the film website, the film poster was "loosely inspired" by the film posters of The Andromeda Strain and Phase IV. The same website also mentions that the two films were "a significant reference point for the making of The Creeping Garden". The poster was designed by iloobia, a London-based artist.

Read on Wikipedia · Text from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Data from Wikidata.

Recommended