The Creeping Garden: Articulating the Science of Slime Mould on Film

This chapter presents an overview of the television and film work featuring myxomycetes before introducing The Creeping Garden, directed by Tim Grabham and Jasper Sharp, a rare example of an independently-produced feature-length documentary intended for a general audience that focuses on scientific subject matter. The issues surrounding the communication of factual information in visual and audial form about an organism that occupies a different timescale and perceptual world to humans is explored, before the various representational techniques of time magnification, sonification, musification and simulation are introduced as potential ways of providing new insights into the natural world.