Time-Lapse: Bizarre, Beautiful Ocean Creatures | Short Film Showcase

Producer Sandro Bocci takes an intimate and hypnotizing look at aquatic life through beautiful time-lapses at a magnified perspective. This up-close look brings you into the world of corals, sea stars, and other marine creatures that seem almost otherworldly.
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[@Chretze]

The music makes it surreal as hell... Almost uncomfortable, but so fascinating!

[@victorha9923]

This video has far less views than it deserves. It's almost as exciting as receiving 5 minutes of footage of life from an alien planet.

[@Arnis1mail]

so true

[@xx-qh8nh]

Victor Ha Totally!

[@denchvulture5283]

Only 100k virws in total two years after you made this comment...I wonder how many it had when you viewed it and commented?

[@Luiciones725]

The music and visuals make it seem like a dreamscape. The kind that impresses deeply on you because it is both abstract yet profound.

[@GandalfTheTsaagan]

Who wants aliens when you have bizarre terrestrial wildlife

[@mayanknegi9167]

They are all aquatic. 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️

[@0Hypsellis0]

They are just anemones, one of the most usual animal in sea, nothing really incredible and crazy, but indeed beautiful.

[@jojak8066]

@@mayanknegi9167 😂 I think it wasn't referring to floor but to earth lol

[@magnumscience9278]

exactly

[@offtraileddino5989]

Our coral reefs are so flamboyant! That we'll enamour it forever, and that make us wanna conserve it so bad ever than before! It's the soft and gentle leisure that blows my mind off. It never bores me!

[@Mrjakokos]

love the drone music

[@Gramer05]

I woke up and this is the first thing i watched, i felt like i was still dreaming

[@AngryKittens]

Echinoderms and cnidarians always seem very mathematical to me. Not quite the pure fractal body plans of Ediacaran life, but close. Almost like there's a formula somewhere in their DNA.

[@slowdiver5732]

Omg this was PERFECTION!!! Every aspect; the photography, the soundtrack. I thought the atmospheric guitar and ambient music was perfect. This would be fun to watch on hallucinogens, if I still did that kind of thing. 10/10 I’d love to see more!

[@natashasemrau3670]

Better patterns than any fabric store. So strange but so eye caughting. 🌏🌏🌏🌏🌏🌏🏞🏞🏞🏞🏞🌅🌅🌅🌅🌅🌄🌄🌄🌄🌄

[@AndiDuck]

What a beautiful alien world !! Right here in the oceans of our magnificent planet Earth .

[@samihakhatoon6635]

music is scary.....visuals are beautiful

[@rayrodriguez5610]

Music is perfect

[@therealyokoohno]

I thought this was a Tool video

[@Anonymoose]

Mind = blown! This is some absolutely amazing footage. Beautifully done!

[@gravixy3499]

It’s amazing to think that we still haven’t found everything in the ocean still. What do you think is out there

[@DG-AI777]

I need more. That was incredible.

[@MariaGarcia281]

It's a whole new world out there! Some looked like ocean flowers blooming And what was that creature that kept swallowing 'colorful ocean dust bunnies' ? they looked so cute, so animated!

[@keatonmichalski4600]

The flowers blooming are called zoanthids, and the ones that were moving the pellets were chalice corals and another type I forgot the name of. All very cool Reef Tank corals.

[@patsykane8404]

This is absolutely amazing work. Thank you to all who made it & of course the wonder of you tube for making this available for all to see. Wow.

[@sumanghosh2684]

wonderful ...... but really weird........

[@ayjfr88]

Suman Ghosh that’s how my friend describe me😂,mostly because I love rainbows and I love horror movies and somehow I still need all lights in my house to be off so I can fall asleep

[@juliej1221]

This is why I love the ocean!!!!!

[@ChristineInNornia]

Love it, love the soundtrack

[@NickPolak]

This is absolut beautiful!! amazing Job.

[@noaccount4]

There was something unnerving and alien about all of these critters, just wonderful!

[@isabelle3153]

Who needs LSD in the Sea?

[@milk2percent416]

I wanna go in a submarine and look at coral while trippin

[@AlexHernandez-gb3ts]

I’m on lsd right now this video was beautiful

[@elysola-hernandez7525]

Me.

[@elysola-hernandez7525]

This definitely just inspired some scuba tripping.

[@bokeflo]

This really is an Awesome time lapse of Bizarre and Beautiful Ocean Creatures. National Geographic at it's best!!

[@MrBenji0]

Made it to the 5 view club squeeeeeeee! Marvelous time-lapse by the way; coupled with the audio, even the smallest variants of nature can appear so uniquely extraordinary, vibrant yet so foreign and unfamiliar.

[@doittoit4116]

I almost forgot this was Natgeo and not a TOOL music video. Awesome and great work!

[@gravixy3499]

Breathtaking

[@emmam837]

That's amazing

[@cboyles84]

Stunning, of course.

[@Aymiikeeganmelb]

So many awesome creatures !!

[@menmygeetar2024]

The atmosphere created by the music is intense and impactful, (meanwhile some sea creature’s seen just casually eating Cap’n Crunch in one of the shots)

[@hopmanad5107]

Respect for photographer. Very good video.

[@alvarocm92]

Amazing!

[@NME10E]

This video and music are superb.

[@jeanstories7950]

I love these types of videos ❤️

[@oliverboo3267]

I love watching this high

[@ljfisher7745]

Simply amazing ~ thank you )

[@kerrymccarthy4226]

Wonderfull video !!!

[@digitalblasphemy1100]

very very neat!

[@MissLida]

music is perfect 👌🏻good choice

[@nepherdwen]

amazing footage

[@ysa5235]

This is why we REALLY have to do our best to conserve coral life. All this acidity in the ocean isn't gonna do us any good. We won't be able to see these creatures if we just keep standing by like this.

[@celineb61]

unreal, really wonderful and psychedelic

[@morenag.7769]

Whoa! That was intensely beautiful! 😍🙌🏽

[@riniks112]

amazing capture

[@deepikasaraswat5171]

thnxx for showing the beauty of nature

[@selcouth86]

Mesmerizing.

[@gayleclanton3311]

Excellent!!

[@ultimaterecyclebin1455]

I'm Amazed! This is oddly satisfying. People watch literally, oddly satisfying videos and I'm here like, WHOA REPLAY!!!

[@prisminc158]

This puts all the other ASMR oddly satisfying videos to shame.

[@stewartthomas2642]

Out there ......Love your stuff kick on love it

[@shishirkodandoor2012]

wow, this is beautifully scary!

[@jussigronvall]

that was unreal =o

[@fernandocarvalho3070]

Fantásticos vídeos...

[@bettystephenson7094]

great video thanks

[@crownological373]

This video is very satysfying and entertaning I wish this video have more views...

[@birgitfenzl3376]

Amazing.

[@LiveItForFree]

AMAZING

[@birgitfenzl3376]

Fascinating creatures!

[@maxiss2004]

Awsome! (I don´t need any more my reality if this exist in somewhere place in the World) Grate job!

[@dorafreitas2656]

Surreal

[@Aperspective1]

Surprising, amazing , diverse creatures... reveal the Amazing One who creates as He wishes...Yakhluqu ma yash'a...Subhanallah...

[@saloppo4019]

Super!

[@jeremielauzon9732]

Time is relative ! :)

[@omnipotente666]

and they move in ultraslow motion for us... makes me wonder if there is an animal that see us humans in slow motion

[@flooriiin]

hummingbirds? :)

[@cuevasmarcos23]

+Luis Alonso Arreola Zavalza I saw a video on the KZbin channel TED about a scientist who did a study on flies. Your common house fly and his research suggested that flies most likely see the world in slow motion. He was saying they have some type of fast viewing process that allow them perceive time slow .

[@Natzure]

If you try to catch a fly, she doesn't even notice you when you are very slow. She just thinks nothing moves at all.

[@milk2percent416]

Yeah flys have incredibly fast reaction times

[@Stellarspace95]

this is what the raw form of life looks like

[@jackloewen418]

If only they kept the colours of the original creatures to show their true beauty...

[@keatonmichalski4600]

Those are the original colors!

[@caroleallard9575]

Tres bon c`est special dans le fond des Mers!

[@eddiekish]

Gimme dem crunch berries!

[@spitalhelles3380]

I wonder how those taste like

[@chateaupig826]

And it was fast motion . .

[@solarflare8806]

wow....................................

[@kestrelflurry]

This came along in my recommended section with a banana timelapse below it ;-; Beautiful video tho! deserves awards UwU

[@BushraKhan-pi1gj]

The part on 1.22 is some thing that feels like MITOCHONDRIA 🥺😅💥💛

[@realshounakbasu]

Hypnotic Dream

[@adifferentkindofdipsht6074]

Thea's r the best videos

[@muangfaa3511]

It would be great if there are captions telling what they are.

[@ginafriend1690]

Dark music to Living Art. Like being on a drug.

[@aruesu1]

**poke** **poke** **poke**

[@user-fj1wn7nq2v]

Unbelievable creatures

[@astra7015]

Psychedelic creatures !

[@tasnimtabassum1952]

scary !

[@catalinavelasco3555]

There is another great world down there

[@frankrawr7747]

tf did i just watch???! and why couldn't I stop????

[@MUSEsyndrome78]

I need the song. Anybody??

[@bmfr1995]

They look like alien, so scary but so beautiful

[@bloodykingkilla]

I pretty much have all of these in my aquarium except for the starfish because it eats the coral

Sad to hear you have aiptasia xD

[@3Hellokittykitty]

Music sounds like the ending climax scene of the film the "Annihilation "

[@akartikawury]

i never expect something bizzare like those creatures is actually exist.. But its really cool tho

[@elizabethtania1385]

The green and purple thing... That sea joker

[@YoManWassup1995]

Wow, thanks for the nightmares...

[@cawner136]

THE BASS

[@chateaupig826]

This reminds me of the 1973 movie , Fantastic Planet

[@reneebecher4463]

COOL 🌊...You might wanna smoke something with this 😉

[@arminajeanvillacorta825]

❤️

[@jjjt_]

what the song?

[@gabrieladesvaldi8554]

Un mondo nel mondo

[@civic9306]

Looks like it could be an alien planet down there. I was wondering what half of those corals and marine creatures were even doing most the time. Its crazy to think all of the sentient life on earth evolved from something similar to those corals all those hundreds of millions of years ago.

[@ElSharifPG]

I don't know how to describe it...

[@worksnmaintain4557]

Please show the names and species of the creatures if possible.

[@bloodykingkilla]

I pretty much have all of these in my aquarium except for the starfish because it eats the coral although I do have one in my small tank

[@RapidDominance000]

bruh

[@gofres]

Beautiful cinematography juxtaposed but some fitting by uncomfortable sound track. It's kinda like enjoying being tickled. Wrong but satisfying.