3+ hours | 14 countries | 30 films
Session A(manita)
Session B(olete)
2020 |France |4:45 |French |Subtitles: English
With an original fungal soundtrack, this is a poetic exploration of the mystical world of Fungi. It aims to inspire people, and help them connect to their inner fungal realm. This weird, interconnected and ever-present beauty is worth being experienced by all humans!
2020 |USA |10:00 |English
"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 |Ireland |5:33 |English
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 |Brazil |1:28 |Portuguese |Subtitles: English
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 |USA |7:08 |English
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 |2:03
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 |Australia |9:49 |English
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 |USA |4:20 |English
The thoughts of an Amanita muscaria (also known as Fly Agaric or Fly Amanita) mushroom on his species' relationship with humans.
2020 |USA |3:20 |English
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 |Canada |1:46
A young mushroom loving creature finds true, eternal love in an all knowing mushroom.
2020 |Japan |10:00 |Japanese |Subtitles: English
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 |USA |8:20 |English
2020 |Germany |5:33
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 |Serbia |3:24
Mushroom dummies is a short film that introduces us to the kingdom of mushrooms in a humorous way. The girl who jogs decides to turn into the forest where she encounters different types of mushrooms in an unexpected way.
2020 |UK |9:02 |English
'Mycelia Messages' is a short documentary from Reflections Small School (Worthing, UK). It follows the factual and fantastical journeys of a group of 4-7 year old children, as they discover and become obsessed with fungi. You'll see the children become expert mushroom hunters, recorders, identifiers and Museum makers; mushroom milliners, clothes designers, fabricators and embroiderers. With the technical help of a DJ parent an original soundtrack is laid down, including sounds made by actual mushrooms! All is brought together, back in the forest, in a brilliant 'Fungi Fashion' finale, with the children transformed into their favourite species.
2020 |USA |3:24 |English
NAMAI is a film about home, heritage, memory and mushrooms. It uses home videos from my father's childhood, as well as supplemental found footage.
2020 |Finland, UK |8:38
The short movie tells a story of how fungi can encourage collaboration and self-sufficiency during these times of isolation, and become the key ingredient of environmentally friendly design. What happens when fungi are extracted from a forest in England, cloned, and shipped to Finland, where two artists are spending their quarantines at a lakeside cabin?
2020 |Canada |3:28 |English
Nurse Log is an experimental film about the transition of a woman into a mother paralleled with the process of a tree becoming a nurse log. It is about the natural way that we take in nutrients and knowledge as we grow, only to share them with the next generation.
2020 |USA |3:20 |English
This is an experimental, glitched-out music video for the Death Hags song Reishi, released in September 2020. The song and video are about self-knowledge and ascending to a higher consciousness.
2020 |USA |2:38 |English
A simple recipe film that adds fungi for flavor!
2020 |France |9:58 |French |Subtitles: English
A farmworker, a winemaker, an object designer, and two head chefs all share one passion: mushrooms. From mycelium in the soil to chanterelles in haute cuisine, in this documentary, these five Frenchmen explore what fungi mean to them and how they can change the way we harvest, eat, and live.
2020 |USA, Nepal |9:56 |English
Suklal's Hunt is a snap shot of the culture and economics of the caterpillar fungus also known as Ophiocordyceps Sinensis. The film Follows Suklal on his annual hunt for this rare and precious mushroom.
2020 |USA, UK |3:18 |English
Sum of its Parts follows the journey of mysterious forest creatures that move to the beat of music. The film is an exploration of stop motion animation made in a natural setting. It was animated entirely outdoors in the Hudson Valley of New York.
2020 |Latvia |2:22 |Other
In his sleep "the Dreaman" has mystical experience which reveals the truth of his own being. At the core he is no other than the universal Self, the "I", the infinite fractal, the beautiful unknowable mystery.
2020 |USA | 7:20 |English
"All That the Rain Promises and More" is one of the most unique and eccentric field guides ever written. This film is a portrait of that book and the mushroom obsessed man who wrote it, David Arora.
2020 |USA |9:40 |English
After Leigh is cut off from her cold, wealthy mother, and witnesses the arrest of her loving-yet-scheming father, she attempts to support herself by capitalizing on her love of wild mushrooms. But while foraging along the forest floor she discovers a shocking family secret.
2020 |France, Switzerland |10:00 |English |Subtitles: English
What if the fungus would cure and radically change society? An essay that explores possible alliances with the fungal reign. While tracing the outlines of a mysterious being, the film reveals the fungus as a true immune system of the planet and, by extension, of ourselves. As if in an uprising of spores, the encounters address the theme of renewal, and question what connects us when the world seems to fall apart.
2020 |USA |3:24 |English |Subtitles: English
An expression of some of my more absurd fears and an exploration of why they scare me. A place that I spend a lot of time mentally.
2020 |USA |6:21 |English
Touch: an E(rot)ic Film features fungi in every shot, up close and personal, large and small, wet and dry, tasty and deadly, young and old. It's about how fungi touch our lives and how they may like us to touch theirs.
2020 |USA |4:47 |English
Ever out searching for mushrooms but never seem to find what you're looking for? Until it hits you, fungi are everywhere.
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