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?
Nature has the answers to many of our problems, if we just look closely. One of them is fungi, or the network that can be grown almost anywhere. When it is distributed across the world, mycelium can do all kinds of good, from giving us a source of food to being grown into an ecologic material.
The images below show the cultivation of mycelium from wild fungi (courtesy of Natura Studios) as well as some of the mycelium objects appearing on the film. Each object is grown by mixing a particular strain of mycelium with plant matter collected around our surroundings.
The film was made for the Together Alone project of the Finnish Cultural and Academic Institutes. It was featured as part of the Fungi Film Fest of 2020. Read some more thoughts about our project here.
Concept: Caracara Collective & Natura Studios
Filmed by: Dennis Konoi & Aurelié Fontan
Edited by: Dennis Konoi
Music: Hannu Ikola
Sound: Miikka Kaila