A glimpse, in words and pictures, of the places where Georges and his team shot the different episodes in the INSECTIA series and of some of the incidents that occurred. A chance to meet the people they met and to catch Georges live, in all his glory.

Malaysia - Penang Island

An odd-looking tourist in front of a Thai temple (Penang)		The first images of the Living Art episode show Georges Brossard standing in front of a Thai temple in Lorong Burma on Penang Island, Malaysia. In this sanctuary lies a reclining Buddha that is more than 32 metres long, almost as long as the temple's name: the Wat Chayamangkalaram. It took a great deal of tact and diplomacy on the part of our Malaysian partners to obtain permission to film in front of the spectacular facade of this temple.

Opposite the Wat Chayamangkalaram temple stands another architectural splendour -- the Burmese Buddhist temple of Dhammikarama.		Buddhist temple

Malaysia - Perak's boutiques

Workshop in Batu Gajah		Through Georges' contacts in Malaysia, we were able to film inside a workshop where insect souvenirs are manufactured. It is a small family business, situated in Batu Gajah, near Ipoh. Its specialty: key-holders made with insects cast in resin. Almost everything is done by hand. A myriad of small hunters and retailers keep the shop supplied in insects.

In this scene, Georges is speaking to us from the souvenir shop of a butterfly farm near Brinchang, in Cameron Highlands. The boxes on the walls look like those used by entomologists. Their contents, however, are not quite so scientific -- indeed, some contain Morpho butterflies from South America labeled as being from Malaysia!		Boutique near Brinchang

Ecuador - Lago Agrio

Shooting in the streets of Lago Agrio		Lago Agrio is the capital of Sucumbios province, in eastern Ecuador. The city has barely 30,000 inhabitants, but after spending three weeks filming in the jungle, the hustle and bustle of its main street had our heads spinning as if we'd been on a main artery in Manhattan. Our film crew did not go unnoticed. A crowd of on-lookers gathered to watch us, curious as to what we found so interesting about Se–or Evaristo's small business.

His shop is tiny but boasts a wide array of artifacts made by the Indians who inhabit the rainforest. Beautiful traditional costumes decorated with insect elytra made their way back to the MontrŽal Insectarium ... and, we might as well ‘fess ( ?) up, into the luggage of the crew members.		Georges with Evaristo.

Ecuador - San Pablo

The artisans of San Pablo		San Pablo is a small Secoya Indian community accessible solely by the River Aguarico. For the cameras of INSECTIA, the craftswomen of San Pablo gave a marvelous display of their incredible handiwork. In no time, they created a whole series of magnificent necklaces decorated with the most dazzling Ecuadorian insects.