Rooms With a Viewfinder
By LISA A. PHILLIPS
The New York Times
Published: June 6, 2008
WHEN Catherine Chalmers was preparing to
film her video “Safari,” which documents the
journey of a cockroach through a mini-tropical
landscape, she turned to animal breeders to
buy her exotic cast of creatures, which
included a poison dart frog and a pygmy
chameleon. Even the cockroach came from a
lab. But there was something missing, she felt
— she wanted more bright color.
