In the shady slopes of the French Tarn gorge, a flower has just bloomed. She is called Ladyslipper.

An experimental short film loosely inspired by the photographic work of Justine Kurland and excerpts from Rebecca Bengal's short story, "The Jeremys". Part trance-state, part dance odyssey, Aura of a Wonderland follows a group of girls who after abandoning their vehicle in an act of rebellion set out on an uncharted hallucinogenic journey of discovery into the freedoms of what bonds each other, and the mysteries of nature to the wilderness of self.

Re-discovery of an ancient fungus and its strange place in history. Returning from Antarctica Erik discovers a mysterious Beech tree fungus in the mountains of Ushuaia on Tierra del Fuego. Curiosity takes over and he follows the fungus through the history of the indigenous people, Darwin's voyage on the Beagle and into his mouth.

You think you know foraging? Think again! Consumption is subjective.

Fungos Sanitatem (working title) is a teaser for a feature length documentary that follows five people on their healing journeys with medicinal mushrooms. From spinal cord injuries to brain tumors. First hand testimony takes the viewer into the remarkable world of nearly miraculous healing.

Harmonia is a short dream-like video that centres on a conjoined costume for two siblings. Hand-dyed with foraged fungi, this garment is made for a picnic experience based in togetherness. Functioning as a jacket-cum-picnic-blanket, Harmonia considers loss, materiality and potential of objects that motivates us into action.

This short film is a journey into the forest with Chilean mycologist Giuliana Furci who reflects on how the so called end of a life in fact leads to new beginnings. Filmed in Chile's striking Araucanía Region landscape, the short presents the wonderful Fungi Kingdom through a poetic perspective that reflects on the importance of allowing for natural cycles of degeneration to unfold. The film encourages viewers to perceive death as the start of something new and as a beautiful part of life's cycle. It features an original soundtrack composed by Enrique Barrenengoa and Elisabetta Monacelli and is narrated by Andy Thorstenson.

Over the past year, the filmmakers have been collecting biodata from various mushrooms via a MIDI Biodata Sonification Device that turns fungi data into MIDI information, which is then used to make music and control visuals. The Yellow Oyster video comes from a recent live mushroom audio/visual performance with various mushrooms providing the source material in real time — creating an ambient and meditative experience.

MycoMythologies: Infrastructures for Each Other summons human, mycelial and computer-vision-agencies to join together in a performance of entanglement, providing understanding that the practices of human and other-than-human infrastructures are made with and informed by one another. Working with the AI network of styleGAN - trained on datasets of human faces, mycelium, roots, rivers, pipelines, roadways and extraction facilities - infrastructures in the latent space are generated to enfold and erode into each other. Becoming infrastructures for each other. The video essay is an attempt at polyphonic montage that allows the digital image to be formed with agency of multiple human and non-human forces while revealing its constitutive parts - the pixels. The infrastructure that enables humans to generate and see digital images is exposed with pixel sorting flow , hinting at the fact that digital images are one of the tools that enables human beings to see beyond our species, thus its production should be questioned constantly.

In the ultimate armchair travel adventure, the hero of fungi lovers across the globe, photographer Stephen Axford, is on the hunt for the answers we all want to know. What fungi is edible? What fungi is poisonous? And, why do scientists now think fungi is absolutely essential to life on this planet? Stephen Axfords’s images of mushrooms have been featured in leading science and nature magazines across the globe. His exquisite time-lapses of fungi growing are showcased in the award-winning documentaries Planet Earth 2, Fantastic Fungi, Hostile Planet, Our Planet and The Kingdom – How Fungi Made The Earth. Teamed up with filmmaker partner Catherine Marciniak, they join a global team of scientists and conservationists on a mission to document and conserve the wild fungi in some of the richest and most biodiverse places on the planet, jungles that are continually threatened with habitat destruction and now climate change. The fungi safari in northeast India is part of that mission. In this documentary, he is in north east India at the invitation of the not for profit organisation, Balipara Foundation. One of their projects is mapping the biodiversity of the forests of the Eastern Himalayas and they’ve just added fungi to the list. However, the real heroes and experts of “Planet Fungi – north east India” are the tribal people who have lived on the edge of the forest fringe for generations. They take Axford and the audience on a journey into the extraordinary, beautiful and sometimes bizarre world of fungi. They share their knowledge of the fungi that kills, the fungi they eat, the fungi that is used for medicine and the fungi that is important to feed the jungle. We discover 34 species of fungi that are possibly new to science, including an extremely bright, luminous mushroom … which is very exciting. In “Planet Fungi – north east India” you’ll discover that world of mushrooms that is truly magical, and their variety and beauty will blow your mind

Under what conditions will something contradict itself, become fractured, replicate the oppositional framework in which it is nested, or — alternatively — embrace its other side or half, or become whole or integrated? One view of “difference” entails incompatibility, and the other, integration. Litmus paper’s color-changing ability comes from lichens, which are symbiotic fungi-algae associations that extend their intrinsic mutualism outward. Thousands of lichen species proliferate on many surfaces in a nonparasitic manner, using the surfaces as substrates and serving as substrates for other organisms. Biologist Scott Gilbert noted, “We are all lichens,” meaning human bodies are also associations of co-functioning organisms, rather than entities siloed apart from nature or each other. Here, clouds of lichen anchor and buoy the test and dream of democracy; the color break in the ties indicates not a “winner,” but the deconstruction of the oppositional, violent logic of “other” itself. Seeing ourselves reflected in all that appears “other,” we are compelled to engage with all that surrounds us with care and responsibility, rather than fear or exploitation. As lichens are incredibly diverse, so are we; like lichens, we have the potential and power to ground and express our differences through mutualism, rather than separatism or suppression.

A young faun named Clove challenges the harmony of her forest glade when her new taste in music clashes with her brother’s teachings. The way her radical new style affects the forest around them goes at odds with everything Cornelius knows of tradition and stability, and he must choose between her happiness and his role in keeping the sanctity of their home.

Thurbrand, a leader living in exile, takes a small scouting party into a mountain wilderness to investigate the disappearance of 12 men over the past year. He is joined by a mysterious sorceress that gives him council during this deadly trial.

A secret culture of foragers spend their lives hunting the Matsutake. Coveted in Japan for its flavor and symbolism, the treasured mushroom can bring up to $1000 kg but its true value lies underground. A genius networker and healer of ruined landscapes, the Matsutake might just be our last, best hope for an American forest system run amuk. The rare fungi appears in troubled and depleted forests, collaborating with trees to help each other grow through a mutual collaboration. Humans continue to be stumped on how to cultivate these rare and valuable mushrooms and voices urging the U.S. Forest Service to change it's fire fighting laws are growing. Characters from Oregon and Northern California invite us into a forest, a mushroom farm and a kitchen to demonstrate what happens when we collaborate and share the greater value found right under our feet - the mushrooms that help to preserve our ecosystem and are still delicious on our plates.

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.