Minute Bodies: The Intimate World of F Percy Smith (a fragment of which is shown above), combines archive footage preserved by the British Film Institute of the naturalist, inventor and pioneering filmmaker, curated by Tindersticks frontman Stuart Staples, and soundtracked with an original score by Tindersticks with Thomas Belhom and Christine Ott. Here, Staples talks about the project:

"In the early twentieth century Percy Smith was not regarded as an expert or an artist, perhaps more of an enthusiast, an educator—an entertainer even. Now almost forgotten, he is an indisputably important figure in British cinema. Over these three years spent curating, editing, and soundtracking his work to create Minute Bodies, I came to think about him as a kind of boy scout with an excitement for bugs and nature.

"He was not just a good photographer, but someone driven to be inventive by his determination to capture and share what had never been seen before, and this at a time when moving pictures themselves were not taken for granted.

"Nearly a century later, I feel his work to be somehow trapped in its time, and in the educational-film format they were commissioned to be. Instead, I was interested in the intimate moments between himself and his subjects, and began by cutting them free."