a winning combination,
especially if you add Louie Schwartzberg into the mix, back in December 2019 we featured his film Fantastic Fungi,
and now there is a video showing how he made the film,
filmed
throughout a 15-year period in his home studio, Schwartzberg’s timelapses zero
in on myriad spores as they burst open, sprawl in every direction, and morph in colour and texture. They’re a compelling visual representation of time and
nature’s cyclical processes, which he explores in a
new short film produced by WIRED.
most of the
challenges in capturing the footage centre around predicting where an organism
will grow to keep it within the shot and understanding the frame rates of
different lifeforms. Schwartzberg explains:
'For
example, a mosquito on your arm, having a little drop of blood, takes a look at
that hand coming towards it in ultra slow motion and has plenty of time to take
off because its metabolic rate, its lifespan, is way shorter than our lifespan.
And our lifespan is way shorter than a Redwood tree’s lifespan. This reality of
real-time human point of view is not the only point of view, and that’s really
the beauty of cameras and time-lapse cinematography. It’s actually a time
machine'.
you can watch the full making-of above and find Fantastic Fungi on Netflix, what a fascinating film, 15 years in the making, crickey!
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