Icarus Films
MINUTE BODIES: THE INTIMATE WORLD OF F. PERCY SMITH
A film by Stuart A. Staples
New Original Score by Tindersticks
Available on , iTunes, and Amazon Video June 4
“A beautiful hypnotic melange.” —The Guardian
“Staples adds many hues to the sense of the sublime inherent in Percy Smith’s work." —Hyperal
“Seeps under the audience’s skins and into their veins.” —Sight & Sound
“A bewitching, hypnotic look at a remarkable world.” —The Creators Project
This meditative, immersive film from Stuart A. Staples (lead singer of
Tindersticks) is a tribute to the astonishing work and achievements of
naturalist, inventor and pioneering filmmaker F. Percy Smith.
Smith worked in the early years of the 20th century, developing various
cinematographic and micro-photographic techniques to capture nature’s secrets in action.
MINUTE BODIES is an interpretive edit that combines Smith’s original footage with a new contemporary score to create a hypnotic, alien yet familiar dreamscape that connects us to the sense of wonder Smith must have felt as he peered through his own lens and saw these microscopic worlds for the first time.
(53 minutes / 2016 / B&W)
BONUS! Includes 4 short films by F. Percy Smith:
THE BIRTH OF A FLOWER (1910, 7 mins)
NATURE’S DOUBLE LIFERS - FERNS AND FRONDS (1932, 10 mins)
HE WOULD A-WOOING GO (1936, 8 mins)
LUPINS (1936, 10 mins)
CLICK HERE TO WATCH THE TRAILER
2019 San Francisco Film Festival
2018 Vancouver International Film Festival
2017 International Film Festival Rotterdam
2017 CPH:DOX Documentary Film Festival
2016 BFI London Film Festivallergic
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