The Creeping Garden

Name: The Creeping Garden
Genre: Documentary
Released: September 30, 2015
Duration: 81 min
Rating: 67

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108 Media | Release Date: September 30, 2015 | Not Rated

Summary: The Creeping Garden is a feature length documentary exploring the work of fringe scientists, mycologists and artists, and their relationship with the extraordinary plasmodial slime mold. The slime mold is being used to explore biological-inspired design, emergence theory, unconventional computing and robot controllers, much of which bordersThe Creeping Garden is a feature length documentary exploring the work of fringe scientists, mycologists and artists, and their relationship with the extraordinary plasmodial slime mold. The slime mold 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 mold in the lab, the film also travels out into the wild, hunting for the organisms in their natural habitat.… Expand

Director: Jasper Sharp and Tim Grabham

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 81 min

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Nicolas Rapold

Sep 29, 2015

Throughout, the filmmakers achieve the rare documentary feat of delving into a topic from multiple angles without slathering it in adulation. Read full review

Serena Donadoni

Sep 29, 2015

Heady and rigorous, The Creeping Garden is an illuminating science documentary that tickles the imagination. Read full review

Peter Keough

Nov 19, 2015

Whether unclassifiable and inconsequential oddity, or overlooked key to the meaning of life, or both, The Creeping Garden is the slime mold of documentaries. Read full review

Dennis Harvey

Sep 29, 2015

Good-humored but not campy in its regard of some genuinely fascinating research, and full of trippy visuals, this science-fair bonanza would have been a midnight staple in the era of “The Hellstrom Chronicles.” Read full review

Farran Smith Nehme

Sep 30, 2015

The film slows to a crawl when the topic turns to computer science. The deadpan humor carries it, though, as with the German composer who records the mold’s vibrations and says, “Slime mold is very happy. This is happy melody.” Read full review

Wes Greene

Sep 29, 2015

It's something unique for both a genre exercise and a documentary: a science-fiction film that doesn't contain an ounce of fiction. Read full review

Martin Tsai

Oct 28, 2015

The Creeping Garden cultivates more style than substance. Read full review

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