Spine Films

08/25/2021

A nice little summary of my favorite Lens of Time episode that I produced. Bat Ballet- https://youtu.be/nPEPX4z4KBw

08/02/2019

Among the diverse cast of animal characters with menacing mouthparts, trap-jaw ants, although tiny, are awe-inspiring in their own right. With jaws that open a full 180 degrees, the ants can strike at the breathtaking speed of 225 kilometers (140 miles) per hour and with a force 300 times the insects’ own weight. In addition to the more conventional functions that jaws perform in other animals, trap-jaw ants employ theirs in a truly novel way: locomotion.

Check out Spine Films' new episode of Lens of Time for bioGraphic!
https://bit.ly/2OujRtK

Produced by Amy Miller
Edited by Josh Rosen
Camera by Owen Bissell
Sound by Mark Barroso

Sometimes the best solution to a sticky situation is a quick escape, and few escapes are faster than a trap-jaw ant’s.

08/02/2019

Among the diverse cast of animal characters with menacing mouthparts, trap-jaw ants, although tiny, are awe-inspiring in their own right. With jaws that open a full 180 degrees, the ants can strike at the breathtaking speed of 225 kilometers (140 miles) per hour and with a force 300 times the insects’ own weight. In addition to the more conventional functions that jaws perform in other animals, trap-jaw ants employ theirs in a truly novel way: locomotion.

Check out Spine Films' new episode of Lens of Time for bioGraphic!

Produced by Amy Miller
Edited by Josh Rosen
Camera by Owen Bissell
Sound by Mark Barroso

04/13/2019

Ever wonder what happens when you mess around with keystone species populations? Find out in our short film about Bob Paine, the biologist who coined the term. Spine Films Josh Rosen BioInteractive

Some Animals Are More Equal than Others explores the work of ecologists Robert Paine and James Estes. Robert Paine’s experiments showed that removing starfish from tidal pools has a big impact on the population sizes of other species. James Estes and colleagues discovered that the kelp forest ecos...

03/23/2019

One of my favorite Lens of Time episodes, "Secrets of Schooling," is an official selection at the International Wildlife Film Festival! This was a fun one to produce in Germany with John Behrens (camera) and Josh Rosen (EP).

Collective behavior is embodied in swarms of insects, flocks of birds, herds of antelope, and schools of fish. Such coordinated movement requires the rapid transfer of information among individuals, but understanding exactly how this information spreads through the group has long eluded scientists. Now, Iain Couzin and his colleagues at the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology at the University of Konstanz, Germany are using new observation techniques and technologies to reveal the mysterious mechanics of collective behavior.
Link: https://youtu.be/Y-5ffl5_7AI

The International Wildlife Film Festival has announced the lineup for its 42nd annual festival happening in Missoula this April. “It’s the longest standing

10/30/2018

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10/30/2018

At first glance, this might look like a hummingbird, but it’s actually a hawkmoth—one of the 🌎's largest flying insects. Like hummingbirds, hawkmoths are hovering specialists. If knocked off balance, they can return to feeding from a flower almost instantly. Scientists are using high-speed video to learn how they remain stable in the air: bit.ly/2C49qXM 📸 Spine Films

10/30/2018

09/27/2018

Runoff from farms and feedlots has badly polluted Iowa’s waterways, more than half of which do not meet federal quality standards. Now, an unlikely coalition is calling for stricter controls to clean up the drinking water sources for millions of the state’s residents.

08/29/2018

Is that a hummingbird?? Nope. Spine Films' newest episode of our bioGraphic series, Lens of Time, is about an equally talented hoverer, the hawk moth. And who knew they had such cute, fuzzy faces?
Owen Bissell Josh Rosen Mark Barroso