Slime Mold: It's Alive

The Leonard Lopate Show | Sep 25, 2015

Director and producer Tim Grabham teaches us about slime mold, a strange, naturally occurring (and often dazzlingly yellow) organism that grows, moves, lives for decades, and even hibernates when circumstances require. In his new film "The Creeping Garden," Grabham describes slime mold's primitive problem-solving intelligence. 

 

Event: Tim Grabham and his co-director, Jasper Sharp will be at the following showings of "The Creeping Garden" at Film Forum, 209 West Houston Street

September 30, 8:00 p.m.
October 2, 8:00 p.m.
October 3, 2:20 p.m.

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