Minuscule: The Private Life of Insects
8.3
2006
Animation
, Documentary
, Kids
Short video animations giving a bird's eye view of insects' day to day existence, distorted through a burlesque, yet poetic lens.
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EP1 - Like a cannon ball
April. 02,2011
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EP2 - The Wing Case
April. 04,2011
Saved by the providential fall of a tiny egg, a mother ladybug adopts it. When it hatches, she realises it contains a little caterpillar.
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EP3 - Webrizon
April. 05,2011
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EP4 - Pea supper
April. 06,2011
A small spider tries out different techniques to open a can of peas.
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EP5 - Homeless
June. 08,2011
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EP6 - Bzzapping
June. 09,2011
A fly and a spider are watching sports on television. They disagree as to which channel they want to watch. It's duel time for the remote control. Who is going to let go: the spider, the fly... or the TV?
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EP7 - The stubborn spider
June. 10,2011
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EP8 - An acorn season
June. 13,2011
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EP9 - Sausage predator
June. 14,2011
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EP10 - Microzilla
June. 15,2011
A careless fly escapes from a hungry spider by shutting herself inside a microwave oven. The radiations turn her into a powerful monster fly the size of an orange.
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EP11 - Honey fly
June. 16,2011
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EP12 - Mission BBQ
June. 17,2011
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EP13 - The Vegetable Garden
June. 20,2011
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EP14 - Thievish as a magpie
June. 21,2011
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EP15 - A pathetic she'nut'igan
June. 22,2011
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EP16 - The grasshopper who didn't know how to leap
June. 23,2011
A grasshopper who's just had babies hurries to teach them the most important lesson of all: how to leap properly. But one of the babies is unable to hop and ends up an outcast.
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EP17 - Chewing-gum rodeo
June. 24,2011
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EP18 - Valentine's day
June. 25,2011
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EP19 - Acrobatics
June. 26,2011
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EP20 - The hat of the medusa
June. 27,2011
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EP21 - Night of the gastropods
June. 28,2011
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EP22 - A pea in the hand is worth...
July. 04,2011
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EP23 - Glue
July. 05,2011
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EP24 - The wicked web
July. 06,2011
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EP25 - Mad fly
July. 07,2011
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EP26 - The cruel cow in the meadow
July. 08,2011
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EP27 - The chocolate chase!
September. 17,2011
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EP28 - If only lonely
September. 19,2011
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EP29 - Catch Me If You Can
September. 20,2011
A reckless male butterfly is interested in a female butterfly that is sitting on a crossroad sign over the other side of the road. Can he make it over to her in one piece?
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EP30 - The housing plant project
September. 21,2011
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EP31 - At full speed
September. 22,2011
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EP32 - The annoying neighbor
September. 23,2011
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EP33 - Thirsty
September. 26,2011
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EP34 - Need for speed
September. 29,2011
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EP35 - Sow the wind and reap the whirlwind
October. 01,2011
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EP36 - The butterfly effect
October. 05,2011
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EP37 - Fly hunting
October. 06,2011
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EP38 - A butterfly's nightmare
October. 12,2011
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EP39 - Patatas fritas
October. 29,2011
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EP40 - He who laughs last, laughs longest
November. 02,2011
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EP41 - Fly swatter
November. 07,2011
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EP42 - Spider from the Depths
November. 12,2011
Two spiders are hunting the same prey: a fat fly, lying unconscious on the surface of a pool. The booty will go to the spider that can reach the fly before it wakes up, and without getting wet of course.
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EP43 - High voltage
November. 19,2011
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EP44 - A Christmas Apple
November. 22,2011
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EP45 - Gather more to pollinate more
November. 26,2011
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EP46 - The iron monster
December. 03,2011
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EP47 - The long road
December. 10,2011
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EP48 - The yule log
December. 17,2011
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EP49 - Rascals!
December. 21,2011
A group of black ants get their food - a nice nut - stolen by a band of red ants. But the leader of the black ants isn't prepared to give up the fight.
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EP50 - The Grocery store incident
December. 23,2011
A mischievous ladybird lures a bunch of flies into a crazy chase inside a supermarket.
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EP51 - Spider driver
December. 24,2011
A spider is trying out a miniature red toy car when a bus full of flies hits it. The flies are clearly looking for trouble. A ladybug comes to save the day, happy to give a lesson to these troublemakers.
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EP52 - Snow carrot
December. 26,2011
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EP53 - Down the chimney
December. 27,2011
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EP54 - Trapped
December. 29,2011
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EP55 - The monster of the haunted swamp
December. 31,2011
In a gloomy swamp, the insects are terrified by a frightening shape which produces strange sounds.
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EP56 - Turbo speed
January. 04,2012
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EP57 - Snow fly
January. 07,2012
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EP58 - A candlelight christmas
January. 16,2012
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EP59 - Ants on the train
January. 18,2012
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EP60 - zzz in the metro
January. 21,2012
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EP61 - Go blue go!
January. 28,2012
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EP62 - Chocolate fly
February. 01,2012
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EP63 - The sled and the ant
February. 14,2012
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EP64 - Refrigerated
February. 15,2012
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EP65 - zzzZZZzzz
February. 18,2012
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EP66 - Plant pot trickery
February. 25,2012
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EP67 - Broom's sweep
February. 28,2012
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EP68 - The magic fly
February. 29,2012
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EP69 - Telecanetic
March. 01,2012
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EP70 - Brushing
March. 03,2012
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EP71 - The artist
March. 07,2012
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EP72 - Twelve angry snails
March. 08,2012
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EP73 - A dream of speed
March. 14,2012
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EP74 - Blunder
March. 29,2012
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EP75 - Mosquito net
April. 19,2012
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EP76 - The doughnut
April. 23,2012
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EP77 - Sunburn
April. 24,2012
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EP78 - Away all boarders!
April. 26,2012
Inside a cosy countryside cottage in midwinter, two rival groups of ants fight over a handful of olives.
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EP79 - To the port now!
April. 27,2012
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EP80 - Love apple
April. 30,2012
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EP81 - Ant on the rocks
May. 05,2012
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EP82 - Sand castle
May. 12,2012
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EP83 - The grocery store racketeer
May. 19,2012
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EP84 - Metamorphosis
October. 13,2012
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EP85 - Pollution
October. 17,2012
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EP86 - Ladybugland
October. 20,2012
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EP87 - Umbrella and coconut trees
October. 20,2012
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EP88 - The mosquito of the caribbean
February. 26,2013
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EP89 - beehive on a troll
May. 30,2013
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EP90 - It's a tie!
June. 21,2013
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EP91 - Top tabasco
July. 15,2013
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EP92 - Labyrinth
July. 15,2013
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EP93 - Sleep walker
September. 30,2013
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EP94 - White as snow
December. 23,2013
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EP95 - Black slope for gastropod skiers
January. 02,2014
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EP96 - Summer hat
May. 20,2015
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