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The Creeping Garden

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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.

Status: Released

Released Date: 2014-07-27

Runtime: 81 mins

Director: Jasper Sharp, Tim Grabham

Spoken language: English

Genres: Documentary

Original title: The Creeping Garden

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Production Countries: United Kingdom

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Simon Foster

"The Creeping Garden at first appears to be a rather stuffy British naturalist pic but, if Grabham and Sharp’s utterly engaging and refreshingly intelligent doco teaches you anything, it is that the best of what’s on offer is often found beneath the thin veneer of preconception..." Read the full review here: http://screen-space.squarespace.com/reviews/2015/7/3/the-critics-capsule-revelation-2015-volume-2.html

2015-12-07

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