Creators

In 2023 Winclove Probiotics asked filmmaker Hans Busstra to create a documentary about bacteria that would depict our common ancestor in a never before seen manner. Challenged by this proposal, production company Spiegelfilm set up a collaboration between Winclove, Busstra and the world’s leading artists in microscopy, like micro-photographer Wim van Egmond, and some of the best science animators in the world, working at Digizyme. As a team of micronauts they embarked on a unique mission: to capture the first moving images of a single bacterium on the molecular scale. 
To achieve this a team of scientists built a 3D model of a Lactobacillus based on actual bio-data. This model enabled camera movements inside a bacterium that led to scientifically accurate molecular animations. 
What unfolds is a universe in itself, showing us the complexity of life at the smallest level.