ANTHROPOMYCENE An Exploration of Our
Connection With Fungi

Autumn Aroma

"Autumn Aroma" is a documentary about the history of Japanese Americans hunting for Matsutake mushrooms in the Pacific Northwest. This short is an edited version of an episode in an upcoming web series.

2020 |USA |10:00 |English

Bill O'Dea: Fungophelic

Irish Mushroom expert Bill O'Dea brings us into the seemingly infinite world of Mushrooms and explains their profound impact on the world we live in.

2020 |Ireland |5:33 |English

Confusão dos contornos

Esta é uma pequena história sobre contaminação & transformação, envolvendo fungos como agentes criadores. Ao incentivar a proliferação sobre minhas fotografias impressas, reflito sobre narrativas a partir da decomposição, sob um olhar menos antropocêntrico, relacionando diferentes escalas interligadas da existência. Com suas características de transformar a matéria, fungos atuam como organismos de interação entre vida e morte, sendo essenciais aos ciclos do planeta. No contexto em que um microrganismo levou a maioria da população mundial ao confinamento, há que se pensar na coexistência com pequenos seres. O projeto de cocriação reflete sobre a poesia existente no descontrole de imagens vivas e em encontros proporcionados pela contaminação: somos feitos de muitos seres. This is a short story about contamination & transformation, involving fungi as creative agents. By encouraging the proliferation of my printed photographs, I reflect on narratives based on decomposition, from a less anthropocentric point of view, relating different interconnected scales of existence. With their characteristics of transforming matter, fungi act as organisms of interaction between life and death, being essential to the cycles of the planet. In the context in which a microorganism led the majority of the world population to confinement, it is necessary to think about coexistence with small beings. The co-creation project reflects on the existing poetry in the lack of control of living images and in encounters provided by contamination: we are made up of many beings.

2020 |Brazil |1:28 |Portuguese

Cycle

A man lost in the woods and starving runs across some suspicious looking mushrooms. He knows there is risk of poison but his hunger gets the best of him, and he goes on a peculiar trip.

2020 |USA |7:08 |English

decomposer

Decomposer is a part of my Catabolic series, a musical and visual arts experience. Both the song and the music are a product of machine learning. The music is hypnotic and ambient, transporting the listener to an altered state while the visual aspect invites viewers to get lost in the stream of images breaking down before their eyes. Combining the sensory elements of sound and sight in one experience, Decomposer immerses the viewer so fully that one feels emotionally present, but physically distant.

2020 |USA |2:03

Fire Loving Fungi

The world looked on in horror as Australia burned in one of the worst bushfire seasons on record. The forest was devastated but surprisingly mushrooms started appearing within days of the fires going through. Fungi obsessives Stephen Axford and Catherine Marciniak documented the fire loving fungi coming up on the Mt Nardi fireground on the north coast of New South Wales and discovered just how vital these mushrooms are to the recovery of the forest.

2020 |Australia |9:49 |English

Fly Amanita

The thoughts of an Amanita muscaria (also known as Fly Agaric or Fly Amanita) mushroom on his species' relationship with humans.

2020 |USA |4:20 |English

Fungi Pig

Fungi Pig is about a neglectful pet owner finding magic mushrooms growing in her guinea pig's cage. She eats them and is fated with her karma.

2020 |USA |3:20 |English

In Search of Medicine

A young mushroom loving creature finds true, eternal love in an all knowing mushroom.

2020 |Canada |1:46

Japanese Shiitake Forestry

Woodlanders is an online film series that seeks to document the work of people who care for and depend on forests for their livelihood and well-being. The Japanese Shiitake Forestry episode features traditional Japanese shiitake growing.

2020 |Japan |10:00 |Japanese

LA Hikikomori

2020 |USA |8:20 |English

Moonwalker

Lichen is an alien beauty of resilience and fragility which grows incredibly slow from the perspective of a human. The world where the Moonwaker lives is where the stillness is a pulsating, breathing flesh, slithering through & suspended in an endless blackness.

2020 |Germany |5:33