1996
Cannes Film Festival
Grand Prix de la Commission Supérieure Technique
Microcosmos

Microcosmos : Le peuple de l'herbe
A documentary of insect life in meadows and ponds, using incredible close-ups, slow motion, and time-lapse photography. It includes bees collecting nectar, ladybugs eating mites, snails mating, spiders wrapping their catch, a scarab beetle relentlessly pushing its ball of dung uphill, endless lines of caterpillars, an underwater spider creating an air bubble to live in, and a mosquito hatching.
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1996
Grand Prix de la Commission Supérieure Technique
Microcosmos
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