Insect Movies

In this playful essay film, the filmmaker investigates our culture's discomfort with all things many-legged.

The body of a young woman is slowly consumed by insects.

After eating a cheesecake given to him by a kind-hearted lady, a hobo goes to sleep and has a bizarre dream in which insects are putting on a...

Propped upon the tail-end of a match, a housefly performs astonishing feats, alternately juggling a series of objects - a blade of grass, a cork, a...

The courtship rituals of animals and plants are compared to those of contemporary society, with educational and frequently humorous results.

Luis Buñuel’s observation – “You can find all of Shakespeare and de Sade in the lives of insects” – was the...

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

UNIVERSUM cameraman Wolfgang Thaler and Bert Hoelldobler, a leading authority on ants, bring us face-to-face with the mysterious world of these...

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

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...