Vegetation thrives in painter Morikazu's garden, which is home to creatures that serve as models for his paintings, including numerous bugs and cats. A sweet and heartwarming day begins for Morikazu, who gazed at these garden creatures on a daily basis for over three decades, and those who love him.
As she plays a character that ressembles her in a story that ressembles hers, Sarah realizes that she needs go get away from her partner and the movie set she's in to get her well-being back.
Nightclub singer Joan Gordon runs away from her gangster boyfriend to become a mail-order bride to a struggling North Dakota farmer. Their relationship has a rocky start, but just as Joan realizes she's developing feelings for her husband, her old boyfriend arrives to win her back.
In a time of starvation, a survivalist lives off a small plot of land hidden deep in forest. When two women seeking food and shelter discover his farm, he finds his existence threatened.
On a dystopian island, where the government has banned organic plant life, a man with an artificial flower shop grows real plants in secret, cultivating their surreal properties, trying to breathe some air into the smothering environment.
Inside a room full of plants, a woman finds shelter from the outside world. Submerged in delirium, Alba experiences her withering.
In March 2020, an Argentine woman flees New York with her Peruvian husband for his family’s empty beach house outside of Lima, whereupon an unplanned pregnancy precipitates the destruction of her marriage. In the present, she rips the moments of this narrative from their context, and reconstructs her story to reckon with her profound feeling of loneliness and the experience of time in which it has trapped her.
In a post-apocalyptic world devoid of plant life, a lone survivor fights desperately to reclaim hope and life. Upon unexpectedly discovering seeds, she risks everything to cultivate humanity’s last plant.
An experimental short film about sensory seeking behaviour in childhood. Filmed on VHS.
A woman struggles to control the thoughts looping in her head. The film is an ode to Vine & her Loop Counter.
What would you do if your husband turned your house into a jungle? This is a short film focusing around mental entrapment in an emotionally abusive relationship, using plants as a metaphor.
Film follows Haide and Toomas, husband and wife in life and in art Piip and Tuut through the hard work of the creation of their new clown show in the Botanical Garden of Tallinn, showing the intensity and poetry behind their craft and focusing on their collaboration on stage and in life.
Les Trésors des plus beaux Jardins français
Colgrave rolls out another collection of his crazy, surrealist creatures and this time they are moving to the music.
Once, after being interrogated at the border, I saw a long fence through the car window. It was tinkling in the wind, overgrown with ruderal plants. That charged image was a manifestation not only of oppression but of resistance and desire. ||||||||/__ | is a lengthy passage that captures the liminal conditions of the exiled body. In emigration and exile, determination is juxtaposed with vulnerability: one must constantly break down barriers, including those of one's own body. The film employs various visual and sound techniques and performative gestures that sensitize surfaces, boundaries, media, and spaces.
Discusses the temperate deciduous forest biome, highlighting its seasonal changes and the interdependence of plant and animal life. It explains the characteristics of the forest, including its layers of vegetation and the life cycles of various species. The video details how trees, particularly deciduous ones, influence the ecosystem, how animals adapt to seasonal changes, and the cyclical nature of life in this biome, from spring growth to winter dormancy.
14-part special in which botanist Francis Hallé explains forest science and processes. Part of the "Once Upon a Forest" physical release.
The secret world of plants gets us closer to these motionless and quiet creatures, so attractive and surprising as the rest of the living creatures. The documentary reveals the most unknown aspects of the vegetable kingdom. We learn about the secret of the eternal youth of a 3500 years old sequoia and be charmed by the 'rafflesia arnoldi' flowers, able to reach up to one meter of diameter.
Neurobiology has shown in the recent years that contrary to the traditional boundaries between animal and plants, plants can feel, move and even think. Over the recent years, a small but growing group of researchers from Austria, Germany, Italy, UK, Japan, South Africa and the USA, has developed a new scientific field of research: the neurobiology of plants. Their discoveries question the traditional boundaries set between the animal and the vegetable kingdom: plants are capable to develop the cognitive process claimed by humans and animals. If plants can move, and feel... Could they possibly think ? In a creative and captivating scientific investigation style, through spectacular specialist photography and CGI, and re-creating scientific experiments, this documentary is bound to change your own perception of plants.
We went to the fields to find out what they had to say.