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EdgeCode: Underfoot

Name: EdgeCode: Underfoot
Duration: 5 min

Alex Mackenzie

2006 | 5 min

This experimental animated short dissects the Earth's surface and soil. Filmmaker Alex Mackenzie uses a specially built film exposure device to study the insect world, with remarkable results. Living insects are rendered as photograms on the surface of film stock, pulsating and teeming with life.

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director

Alex Mackenzie
producer

Svend-Erik Eriksen

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