Catherine Chalmers

Safari

Catherine Chalmers

This wordless, hallucinatory nature documentary is not precisely natural, nor exactly a documentary. Following the travails of a cockroach through a studio-constructed tropical paradise, its extreme close-ups present a world in which bizarre plants and animals engage in a constant dance of eat and be eaten.

Leafcutters

Catherine Chalmers

Atta Colombica, Atta Cephalotes

Leafcutters is a unique collaboration with millions of wild ants. Focusing on four supposedly unique human traits – language, ritual, war and art – the narrative aims to blur the boundaries between culture and nature.