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The Creeping Garden

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United Kingdom · 2014
1h 21m
Director Jasper Sharp
Starring
Genre Documentary

An independently-produced feature-length documentary depicting the world of myxomycetes, or plasmodial slime moulds, and the diverse array of research currently being conducted around them. The film boasts stunning original macroscopic time-lapse footage of these overlooked organisms, filmed within its natural habitat and in a controlled laboratory setting, and features interviews with artists, researchers and scientists involved in the fields of the visual arts, music, mycology, computing and robotics to explore ideas of biological-inspired design, emergence theory, unconventional computing and scientific modelling.

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Variety by Dennis Harvey

Good-humored but not campy in its regard of some genuinely fascinating research, and full of trippy visuals, this science-fair bonanza would have been a midnight staple in the era of “The Hellstrom Chronicles.”

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New York Post by Farran Smith Nehme

The film slows to a crawl when the topic turns to computer science. The deadpan humor carries it, though, as with the German composer who records the mold’s vibrations and says, “Slime mold is very happy. This is happy melody.”

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Boston Globe by Peter Keough

Whether unclassifiable and inconsequential oddity, or overlooked key to the meaning of life, or both, The Creeping Garden is the slime mold of documentaries.

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Slant Magazine by Wes Greene

It's something unique for both a genre exercise and a documentary: a science-fiction film that doesn't contain an ounce of fiction.

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