Louie Schwartzberg: The Hidden Beauty of Pollination

May 13, 2011 by Gail
Filed under VidStyle

Pollination is vital to life on Earth, but largely unseen by the human eye. Filmmaker Louie Schwartzberg shows us the intricate world of pollen and pollinators with gorgeous high-speed images from his film ‘Wings of Life’, inspired by the vanishing of one of nature’s primary pollinators, the honeybee.

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ABOUT Louie Schwartzberg

“Louis Schwartzberg’s notable career spans feature films, television shows, commercials and documentaries. He won two Clio Awards for TV advertising, including best environmental broadcast spot, an Emmy nomination for best cinematography and the Heartland Film Festival’s Truly Moving Picture Award for the feature film ‘America’s Heart & Soul’. He is also recognised as a pioneer in high-end time-lapse cinematography.

Louie founded BlackLight Films to use the DVD power of media to inspire and entertain through television programming, DVD products, and full-length motion picture and IMAX films.

His film ‘Wings of Life’ was released by Disneynature. “Rarely seen by the naked eye, ‘Wing of Life’ allows us to experience the most intimate intersection of the animal and plant worlds, the mystical moment where life regenerates itself over and over again.

He would ask his scientific advisors, “what motivates you?” They would say, “It’s all about risk and reward. Why? Because they want to survive. Why? So they can reproduce? Why? And one scientist pondered it deeply and replied, “Nothing lasts forever, everything in the universe wears out.”

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