The Creeping Garden (2017)

Film details

Featuring

Mark Pragnell Heather Barnett Bryn Dentiger
Country

United Kingdom
Year

2017
Genre

Documentary
Type

Film
Category

Non Fiction

Synopsis

[From film's website:] A real life science fiction movie exploring a world creeping right beneath our feet, where time and space are magnified and intelligence redefined. The Creeping Garden is a multi award winning feature length creative documentary exploring the work of fringe scientists, mycologists and artists, and their relationship with the extraordinary plasmodial slime mould. The slime mould is being used to explore biological-inspired design, emergence theory, unconventional computing and robot controllers, much of which borders on the world of science fiction. But as well as exploring the slime mould in the lab, the film also travels out into the wild, hunting for the organisms in their natural habitat. Co-directed by artist film-maker Tim Grabham and writer and film curator Jasper Sharp, the film follows in the unconventional footsteps of Grabham’s previous feature ‘KanZeOn’ and Sharps fascination with the extended world of mycology. With an original soundtrack composed by celebrated musician and producer Jim O’Rourke (Sonic Youth, Werner Herzog’s ‘Grizzly Man’) this is a unique exploration into a hitherto untapped subject matter, observing and immersing the audience into the worlds of the observers and the observed.

Cast & Credits

Cast
- - on-screen participant
    
    Mark Pragnell
  - on-screen participant
    
    Heather Barnett
  - on-screen participant
    
    Bryn Dentiger
  - on-screen participant
    
    Tim Boon
  - on-screen participant
    
    Andrew Adamatsky
  - on-screen participant
    
    Klaus-Peter Zauner
  - on-screen participant
    
    Jeff Jones
  - on-screen participant
    
    Ella Gale
  - on-screen participant
    
    Eduardo Reck Miranda
Credits
- Unknown:
  - Directed [by]
    
    Tim Grabham
  - Directed [by]
    
    Jasper Sharp
  - ©
    
    Cinema Iloobia
  - ©
    
    Global Flâneur
  - Produced in association with
    
    The SRK
  - Produced by
    
    Tim Grabham
  - Produced by
    
    Jasper Sharp
  - Research and interviews
    
    Jasper Sharp
  - Additional Archive Research (North America)
    
    Rob Buscher
  - Photography
    
    Tim Grabham
  - Photography
    
    Clare Richards
  - Photography
    
    Ben Ellsworth
  - Photography
    
    Tom Swindell
  - Aerial Camera
    
    Richard Hughes
  - Visual Distortions
    
    Amoeba.av
  - 3D Spore Animation
    
    Duncan Brown
  - Editor
    
    Tim Grabham
  - Post-production
    
    Cinema Iloobia
  - Phyllotaxus Sculpture
    
    Peter Randall-Page
  - End Credit Illustrations
    
    Angela Mele
  - Original Soundtrack
    
    Jim O'Rourke
  - Opening title and closing credits music
    
    Woob
  - [Additional Music] Physarum Musification
    
    Miranda, Eduardo
  - [Additional Music] Physarum Musification
    
    Edward Braund
  - Sound Mix and Mastering
    
    Paul Pascoe
  - Magic Lantern Projection and Archive
    
    Peter Gillies
  - Additional Visual Material
    
    Heather Barnett
  - Additional Visual Material
    
    Jeff Jones
  - Additional Visual Material
    
    Andrew Adamatsky
  - Additional Visual Material
    
    Edward Braund
  - Additional Visual Material
    
    Mark Pragnell
  - Thanks
    
    John Carino
  - Thanks
    
    Patrick Russell