BBC Future met researcher Andreas Heinrich in his laboratory at IBM's Almaden Research Center in California, to find out more about the microscopic movie-making.
Farmer's miniature winged humans, attacking wasps under glass domes like something from a microscopic horror movie, are a particularly effective evocation of the spirit of the wunderkammer.
Several methods for detecting pseudopods automatically or semi-automatically in microscopic cell movies have been proposed previously.
Gap formation was due to LEC migration (retraction) but not due to apoptosis of LECs, which was evidenced by microscopic time-laps movies (not shown) and by berberine-mediated inhibition of migration (Ho et al, 2009; Tsang et al, 2009).
On the last Oscar night surprises became rare as awards watchers, professional and otherwise, turned microscopic attention to the movie prize game in the last decade.
At the same time, there are already more than a half a billion PDF documents on the Web that people happily read on computers without printing them out, and still more people now spend hours watching movies on microscopic cellphone screens.
These days, instead of throwing everything but the kitchen sink at the audience and hoping some of it scares them, filmmakers are working on a relatively microscopic scale, making horror movies like The Witch and Green Room, and audiences seem to dig them.
The movie becomes a microscopic examination of shifting family dynamics with the birth of their child, Ricky, a noisy, demanding boy who takes attention away from Lisa, who in one scene is shown secretly clipping his wings.
'I don't think the movie is really an in-depth microscopic view of the fashion industry,' he said.
Shot in a boxy format with a drab, harsh palette that suits the weather and the mood of emotional and material deprivation, the movie intersperses vertiginous Yorkshire vistas with almost microscopic examinations of the local flora and fauna.
