Fruitopia

On July 11, 2021, Virgin Galactic's VSS Unity spaceship tooks off with six crew members on board. In a short space of time they rose over fifty miles high, being able to observe planet earth. In the cockpit and for about three minutes without gravity, the billionaire tycoon Richard Branson celebrate

Seasoned, fermented, gamy, marinated, smoked foods are not always our favourite. Japanese natto, Chinese 100-year-old egg, long-aged French cheeses, or even Swedish surströmming... Even steeped in rot, the dishes that we consider appetizing vary according to cultures and times.

In this game one person's loss isn't another's gain – everyone loses. In the world of losers different laws prevail and there is always plenty of good stuff around. All the food used for the animation was collected from bins.

A unique and sensory coconut milk 'un-recipe. It's an invitation to pause and let our eyes linger, a welcome break from countless 6-second recipe videos.

Through the floating garden, into the mountain of signs and chants, arise the path of the winged stone. A stone that used to be a fossil.

Lensed with the fuzzy-edged resolution and smeary vibrancy of early-2000s standard-definition video, Tulapop Saenjaroen's film blends family drama, process documentary, and narratological meditation through the story of a man named Earth, his sister Ink, and their family business, a mangosteen-proce

We want cheap fruit and veg, all year. No problem. The pickers deliver, but they are paying the price for us. THE PICKERS is a journey to European fields where our fruit and vegetables are grown: in Southern Italy, Seydou from Mali is picking oranges. He has no contract and is paid per crate. He liv

Haylene Green aka The Garden Queen aka The Hibiscus Sorrel Lady, an Atlanta garden activist, tells the story of how she grows Jamaican Sorrel and makes her signature Sorrel drink.

As the global demand for the super food avocados has soared, Chile has become the world's third-largest exporter of avocados. But the community of Petorca, Chile, say drought — and the insatiable appetite for avocados — has brought desperate water shortages. This film explores a quiet wa

In a mysterious tropical forest, an enigmatic figure appears who questions love and sensuality shrouded in pain.

Guava lives in a space that has turned everything white and bland. She's kept a stock of her childhood favorite fruit which is running low. Despite her multiple attempts to reproduce it, she has been unable to harvest one with its distinctive inner color and flavor. Desperate of her failed attempts,

This film depicts in an experimental way, the 4 Stages of Menstruation; The Luteal Phase, The Follicular Phase, Menstruation and Ovulation. This film documents a temporary intervention in the Irish landscape, using natural materials. The pink fluff delicately swaying in the wind is one single female

Within the human struggle to live and work, and with the materials for survival available for exploitation, seemingly foreign worlds are intertwined in the modern battlefield of patents, ownership, and colonialism. Delving into labor and science practices, A Common Sequence examines who gets to work

A quarantine meditation on the scent of exile, told through the stories of family roots in Los Angeles and living in the shadow of the US/Mexico Border. This film was made for the indigenous who are treated as migrants in their own land. In their generosity, friendship, and hard work, they are the b

Limonada portrays an eccentric chemist working on developing a "limonada" antidote to identify sweet talkers. The chemist tests her antidote on her clones until she finds the right antidote.

Setting the Bar follows the top craft chocolate makers in the world as they journey through the deep jungles of the Peruvian Amazon in search of rare native cacao varietals that have never been used in chocolate production. Share in the passion and excitement of the chocolate makers as they travel i

In a not-too-distant future ravaged by climate crisis, a team of scientists analyse the archival footage of farmers from the past, in an attempt to understand their connection to the land. In this beautifully shot blend of documentary and fiction, Gregor Božić pays warm tribute to the old growers of

A gender-fluid Berliner fights to reconcile love and identity, as their grandmother's Alzheimer's threatens their family history.

Earth. The only known place in the universe where you can bake a fruit pie and from which you can embark on an adventure into distant interstellar space surrounded by cosmic bodies, planets, and new knowledge.

Claudia Claremi's multimedia project La memoria de las frutas (The Memory of Fruits) explores the emotional and sensory connections people have with Caribbean fruits. The work forms a living archive of memories through hand-processed 16mm film showing gesturing hands recalling fruits like mangoes, s

In a world that seems extraterrestrial, landacapes reminiscent of our world stand out and come together to form a whole.

Dream of a Persimmon Girl is a collaborative work between fashion brand ZAMX and director Wenkai Wang. Shanghai and NYC-based filmmaker Wenkai Wang creates an immersive dream world in a new fashion film shot in Zhuchuan Village, Shizhen, on the western island of Lin'an. Dream of a Persimmon Girl dwe

Toni grows oranges. He loves them, they are his treasure. Until one day, strange cargo ships dock in the valley. Cargos loaded with... GREEN oranges!

On a grape harvest afternoon, children and adults tread the red grapes.

A journey of passion, a bitter night. Xiao Cheng ask for help to resolve a big trouble, the guy with whom he spend the afternoon is dead on his bed from the effect of a drug, not something the Chinese authorities look kindly on.

An invisible line connects California to parts of the Middle East and North Africa, where similar climates provide ideal growing conditions for date palm trees. Using textural 16mm, filmmaker Long surveys the arid California landscape along the San Andreas Fault—from microscopic plant cells to

A bowl of blueberries in milk, changing light radiant on the berries and on the glazed bowl, the ever more radiant orb of milk transforming into glowing light itself, with a brief shadow coda answering the complex play of shadows. The regular pulses of light framing the looser rhythmus of the spoon,

The Golden Harvest a 6,000-year old love story in which the filmmaker tries to understand the profound, often troubled, relationship between olive trees and the people of Mediterranean, including her own father. It is a complicated romance, sometimes funny, sometimes tragic, set in a region that inc

Vienna-based artist Alexandra Tatar wanted to spend time during the pandemic with her mother who lives in Romania, so in autumn 2020, she signed up to work with her—and countless other migrant workers from Eastern Europe—as a seasonal worker at an Austrian vineyard. The video Mâna

In 2004, Abdi Abajabal came to the United States from Ethiopia. In 2012, he decided to start a health juice shop in Harlem with only five hundred dollars to his name. Ten years later, he is still going.

Through a tapestry of observation, personal anecdotes, and collective reflections, Mango Movie, delves into the heart of Miami's beloved mango season and its intrinsic connection with community, nostalgia, and climate.

This experimental film takes a closer look through the entomologist's lens at the cyclical behavioural patterns linking humans to the insect world. Just as the fig wasp inevitably finds death in the pollination of the fig tree flower, we too are thrown into the dance of passion and death. Drawn by t

Jennifer Reeves' method of diving into nature with a two-and-a-half-year-old and a camera is a celebration of the pure act of discovery, and an invitation to play with the idea of other means of hearing and seeing – incorporating negative and solarized images, fragmented voices, altered emulsi

June 2010. 11 years old Julia and Raphaëlle are the best at killing time together. Between walking their blind neighbor's dogs and finishing their music video before Raph returns to Romania, they unconsciously grow apart. This nostalgic semi-autobiographical story recounts the last moments of t

Fruit, toothpicks, glitter.

Amidst her village, Sumsun, nearing the brink of extinction, an unforgiving desert warrior fights to protect the legacy of Palve, a sacred psychedelic fruit that connects its indigenous to the spiritual realm. The only way to experience the effects of this scarce and forbidden hallucinogenic is thro

A Ukrainian filmmaker-refugee's exploration of Californian reality unfolds through a dialogue between the author and his wife about the palm tree, both as a biological species and a historical symbol. Through this conversation, he comes to see the palm's LA history as an immigrant, just like himself

A different take on a time lapse. Four slices of an Orange brought back to life. The oranges dried out due to being shot on a light box so not quite as dramatic change as I'd hoped. The video has been partly decoded, conspiracy theorists have worked out it's a warning about 5G, g being the fifth let

In Aztec mythology, Coyolxāuhqui was the Moon goddess who was dismembered by her brother Huītzilōpōchtli, the sun god of war and sacrifice. The film brings this deeply embedded story of Mexican heritage into a modern context, and parses out the legacy of patriarchy in a country that in 2022 was call

Tropical fruits and vegetables radiate on a blizzard-struck street corner in Brooklyn, NY. A visual oxymoron, tugging at the edge of an interconnected and collapsing global order.

Karma, an international high school student from Sikkim struggles to fit in and hold onto his cultural identity when he is stuck at home with his host sibling, Alex.

Somewhere in the Universe, on the PLANET Z, a miracle happens. A water jet springs up and gives birth to a new life: plants. A desert planet becomes a green planet. Different species cohabit, including liquid and sticky mushrooms. But little by little, the mushrooms invade the green land and destroy

In early 2014, a small team was dispatched to Northern Brazil to capture the Cupuacu story for Aveda Corporation. Known for quality hair and skin care products, Aveda's commitment to sourcing quality ingredients was unique and unorthodox. The brand preferred to work directly with small entities to e

Two scientists from the Technomystic Ecology Lab develop technology that processes the ecological grief contained within a database of audio testimonials. In their lab, located deep inside a cave, they alchemize these feelings into a seed archive for an unknown future.

A collage of dreams, fiction, and fragmented memory—this film is an intervention of acid, leaves, and flowers. Blurring the line between documentary and hallucination, it unfolds through textures: VHS archive, animation, Hi8, and Harinezumi, a Japanese spy camera. Over 21 days, a road trip thr

This film has been selected for the 12th PSSST! Silent Film Festival competition in Zagreb (Croatia). Another fruity time lapse, featuring a nectarine, a few strawberries and a dragon fruit. I shot the time lapse with three cameras over two to three weeks.

In order to make Orange , Adrian had fifteen people freely recount things they associated with the word "orange." He then took photographs, which accompanied their associations and gathered all of the definitions of "orange" he found in a dictionary: the fruit, the color, the city, etc. Finally, he

In the threshold between sleep and wake, hallucinations and moments of paralysis take hold. Hypnagogia is an exercise in eco-processing, with different 16 mm B&W film stocks processed with multiple different organic material, including apples, avocado peel, coffee, grapes, peaches, pomegranate and w

While on vacation at the seaside, a youth becomes attracted to his aunt

The life cycle of a grapefruit.

It's the season for 荔枝 （lizhi/Lychee）. Two lovers discover their sweet spots with this juicy, sweet tropical fruit.

Paraíso is a film and photographic series by Daniela Villarreal that explores the body through its relationship with nature. Conceived during an artist residency in the semi-virgin beaches of Chacala, Nayarit, the project reflects on the human tendency to manipulate reality in pursuit of perf

Different voices engage in dialogue with the deities, nature, and themselves. As they reflect on food, emotional bonds, and time, nature seems to open up in mutual conversation.

A tomato travels from a Brazilian plantation to a supermarket and to a consumer's kitchen. It spoils and is sent to the garbage dump, destined to be pig food.

A young girl memorialises her late grandfather by attempting to obtain his favourite fruit. Curiously, she receives the aid of a couple of unexpected visitors.

Whether it be doing yoga with ants, printing with plants, observing the quantum physics of cats, or considering the travel of an apple: not all teachers are human in a bustling Spanish farmhouse. While instances of interspecies care are enacted beneath the cool stone arches of this rambling structur

Water, source of an impossible life, cradles and shapes the figure of a young woman, as nature watches with quiet magnetism.

Rise into being, mature, perish – Fruit tells a creation story. As the animated short film unfolds, it brings forth a play of shapes illustrating the dialog between two mythological forces – the West and the East. In it the vibrating entities of black and white are constantly being split

"One day, some drops of sunlight gave rise to fruits that were sheltered from the scorching cold among the leaves." Uchuva describes a movement of taking shelter. Without breaking the fine waterfall that surrounds this search for shelter.

All the things that grown around these houses, in the middle of the city on a high mountain. This is a place where people forget that living things grown, breath and shine.

More living beings live in the top few centimeters of soil than on the entire surface of the planet. This shows the importance of this humus, which nourishes plants and helps maintain ecological balance. An episode from the series "Night of the Living: Journey to the Heart of Rot."

In a vacant house, scenes of decaying fruit in a box are interspersed with correspondence from a researcher studying the kusōzu, Buddhist paintings that depict the nine stages of a decaying corpse, associated with the practice of realizing impermanence.

A father finds shelter in the memories he created together with his daughter to whom he hasn't spoken in years. The film transforms into a go-between in an attempt to unite them through images, sounds, and letters.

A short film that reveals the hidden layers of a cake recipe from Chile. camera: Elisa Gómez Alvarez sound: Théo Diblanc

A surreal ritual where glittering decay becomes the language of dialogue between flesh and time. Two manifestations of womanhood—the youthful and the withering—perform an act of symbolic consumption at a table laden with fermenting fruits. Their bodies gradually merge with the fruit, for

Seeing a myriad of fruits, pixel by pixel. Seeing Fruit deconstructs a selection of fruit—into streams of color and sound. In alternating diptychs, one side presents the fruit reduced to pure visual data; the other translates its pixels into ambient sonic textures. A study in slowness, attenti

After I Pick the Fruit is a documentary that follows the lives of five immigrant farm worker women over a ten-year period as they labor in the apple orchards and fields of rural western New York, migrate seasonally to Florida, raise their families, and try to hide from the Bush-era immigration raids

ALL SMALL BODIES is a feminist fable based on HANSEL and GRETEL by the Grimm brothers. The story takes place in the distant future among the ruins of a global disaster, revealing the abuses of history and technology. Among the survivors of a chaotic tomorrow are two young girls named Z and Bub. ALL

Sweet Like Lemons is a visual reflection on getting out of a harmful relationship and moving on. The title is a play on the saying "when life gives you lemons make lemonade", only in this case there is no lemonade to be made but the lemons still taste sweeter than the relationship you got out of. Ra

The secret energies of 26 fruits and vegetables are communicated through 16mm film stock with the assistance of eco-developing and eco-reversal processing techniques. Each plant in the film was hand developed in its own "essence" or "tea." The tea was brewed by boiling down each fruit or vegetable a

Log line: An essay, halfway between poetry, documentary observation and musical experimentation. Short synopsis: EXT. DAY. MONTREAL. / On the outskirts of the metropolitan highway, a Mediterranean fig tree stands. / Said Ficus carica, this tree is the work of a 60-year-old Montrealer of Argentine or

To make a fruit pie, you need the whole universe.

An afternoon spent in an orchard picking fruit with family. "In the midst of beings as a whole an open place occurs. There is a clearing, a lighting." – Heidegger

https://www.linyejiang.com/bodyfruit In my photography series, I explore the concept of the queer body, using the juxtaposition of the human form with vibrant red fruits. In this context, the term "queer body" transcends gender binaries, referring to a body that embraces non-normative expressions of

The Viennale'20 trailer is directed by Alice Rohrwacher, undoubtedly one of the most original voices in contemporary cinema, who already opened the festival in 2018 with LAZZARO FELICE . Shot in Bolsena, the beloved landscape where the filmmaker lives and works, AD UNA MELA is a gem of pure cinema,

The Shark in the Park visualizes the growth and development process of a special strawberry species called "Parco Pistris" which has been discovered by a Korean scientifical research group KSPRI in 2016. KSPRI commissioned animation-director-collective Polynoid to take their research and create a vi

Two technicians set up cameras in a forest to capture animal activity at night. A woman moved away from the forest a long time ago. She yearns for her late husband and the forest.

An exploration of the diasporic experience as something visceral, transformative and violent. How do you reinvent yourself in a new context without losing your identity? This is the question that permeates Anciela's SS23 collection as designer Jennifer Droguett sets out to re-develop Latin American

Voices from the Barrens Short Synopsis in English and French "Voices from the Barrens, Native People, Blueberries and Sovereignty," documents the wild blueberry harvest of the Wabanaki People from the USA and Canada. The film focuses on the Passamaquoddy tribe's challenge to balance blueberry hand r

For as long as humans lived around malus species, they've been eating apples. The apple tree has been domesticated, diversified - it has evolved in new ways via natural and artificial selection. But what is the perfect apple? Evolution of crop species: genetics of domestication and diversification.

The artificial flavor of banana is based on a fruit that no longer exists. Gross Michelle was, until 1960, America's most popular strand of bananas. Its obituary is bleak, gooey, and speaks about the past, present and future global food politics. Director | Ana Pérez López Sound | Laur

The film chronicles Frieda Caplan's rise from being the first woman entrepreneur on the L.A. Wholesale Produce Market in the 1960s, to transforming American cuisine by introducing over 200 exotic fruits and vegetables to U.S. supermarkets. Still an inspiration at 91, Frieda's daughters and granddaug

For over a hundred years, when the ships belonging to the East India Company brought barrels of saltpetre to the shores of England, they also brought with them a force that determines how we exist in the world today. Saltpetre, also known by its chemical name, Potassium Nitrate (KNO3) was a coveted

A sort of documentary about the orange tree in my garden. Music is "Trees Against the Sky" by Moondog, from the album "Moondog" 1956. © Moondog Records.

A recently retired father invites his son to help him with the cherry picking in the garden. The father is in no hurry to finish the cherry job though, as he tries to catch up with his son. The cherries remain in the background.

"ON COLOR III: still life" — an experimental video piece that animates still-life photographic prints. These works are formally minimalist and focuse on color dynamics—typically featuring a simple still life (e.g., fruits) which is digitally manipulated and animated in rhythmic sequences

Logline: Seven-year-old Bananas Girl asserts her independence, perfects the art of the non-sequitur and navigates the boundaries between herself and her mom. Synopsis: Seven-year-old Bananas Girl asserts her independence, perfects the art of the non-sequitur and navigates the boundaries between hers

In this small formation history of atmospheric chemistry, flying and thinking beings emerge as the result of high levels of oxygen in the air which is owed to earth's forest and plant cover. In the midst of the oxygenic forest, a science-fictional performer manipulates a multitude of ingredients&nda

Deep in the English countryside, the government has preserved an apple tree, supposedly the very same from which Isaac Newton's apple fell from. This image of the falling apple giving the idea of the law of universal gravitation has been reproduced, vulgarized, reused, commercialized, etc., and yet

People love the backing track, very James Bond of me. Suspense in slow motion. Bugs? Busy? Yes. But the raspberries. oh yeah. Raspberries and Nectarines for tea? Not even a fresh fresh cuppa on offer. This is what happens if you for get to eat your five a day. Not safe for meal times!

Still lives of real fruit meet botanical illustrations of plant galls to expose the paradox of dissection: each time we cut something in two, we merely create a new exterior.

In which I attempt to describe the corelation existing between the life of an avocado, as a living fruit/vegetable, and our own. Everything is connected.

A two-minute animated voyage through nature's life cycle, following the trials and tribulations of a humble apple seed.