Pondlife on BBC Earth

A short video released in 2021 featuring Pondlife footage and an interview with Sally that highlights protists, the Pondlife project, and the research Sally is involved in as part of the Darwin Tree of Life at the Earlham Institute in Norwich, UK.

Pond Scum Under the Microscope – Pondlife #1

We are surrounded by microscopic organisms that are too small to see with the naked eye. Follow Museum microbiologist Sally Warring as she reveals the invisible inhabitants of the green slime at the surface of a pond in Central Park.

In this first episode of the new Pondlife series, join Sally at the Harlem Meer in Central Park as she uses her microscope to observe microbes thriving right under our noses, including some pond microorganisms that were first described by Anton van Leeuwenhoek in 1674.

pondlife x amnh - animated title

Animated title for Pondlife miniseries by Ramin Rahni

Pond Scum Under the Microscope – Pondlife #1

Pondlife x AMNH miniseries

A three part miniseries about some of the microbial inhabitants of New York City and the surrounding areas, made in collaboration with the American Museum of Natural History.

Episode one - Pond Scum Under the Microscope

Episode two - Cyanobacteria from Pond to Lab

Episode three - Microbes in Moss

Created by Sally Warring - Cinematography and editing by Serena Kuo - Location sound and sound mixing by Jon Flores - Original music, sound effects and animations by Ramin Rahni - Studio sound Jesse Vance & Russ Baird - Assistant producer Lisa Rifkind - Executive producers Erin Chapman & Eugenia Levenson.

This series was made possible with a grant from Science Sandbox, an initiative of the Simons Foundation and with the support of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.

Watch here

Lichen

A short documentary about Lichen. Part of the anthology film MOSAIC. Premiering at the 10th annual Imagine Science Film Festival in New York, October 13-20 2017.

Written/Directed/Narrated by Sally Warring - Music/Animation by Ramin Rhani - Cinematography by Joshua Kristal and Sally Warring - Location Sound by Jon Flores - Post Production by Brett Harding.

Endosymbiotic Theory

Every living thing is made up of cells. These cells contain stories. The earliest life forms on earth were made up of only one cell, while we are made up of many many cells living together. The evolutionary history of how we came to be, from our single cellular ancestors, is one of cooperation between individuals.

Written/Directed/Narrated by Sally Warring - Sound/Animation by Ramin Rhani

Symbiont

Part of the 9th Imagine Science Film Festival. Filmmakers and Scientists were paired together and given five days to make a film on the theme of "Light"

Symbiont follows a scientist that gets absorbed in his lab work.

WRITER - SYDNEY CLARA BRAFMAN, T.R. BENNET, SALLY WARRING
DIRECTOR - SYDNEY CLARA BRAFMAN, SALLY WARRING
CAMERA - JESSE LOCASCIO
SOUND RECORDIST - ZACH TRAVIS, RIGO GARAY
COMPOSER - AA/K/AA/R/A
STARRING - LUKE BOND

EDITOR - SYDNEY CLARA BRAFMAN, DAN SABATINI
AD - ALISON IRVINE
AC - NICK SHULTZ
HMU/SFX - RACHEL TEMKIN, NIKKI NEENAN

PAs - IMANI BELSER, AVA RIKKI, DAN SABATINI
TITLE DESIGN - T.R. BENNET