One of the most remarkable documentaries is not a
traditional documentary the way most people think of the genre as having
various talking heads and a narrator revealing facts about a particular topic. Microcosmos takes as its subject matter
the world of insects and other tiny creatures that live under our feet and in
the trees and flowers, but the only factual information presented is a brief voiceover
early in the film. Otherwise directors Claude Nuridsany and Marie Pérennou
employ state of the art miniature cameras to enter a world heretofore unseen by
most people.
