2022
Official Program
2+ hours. 10 countries. 16 films.
The 2022 FFF is no longer available to view-on-demand, but you can find the artists and their works following the links in their descriptions below!
2022 FILMS
All Flesh Is Grass (1:34) – Bethany Willacy (U.K.)
Azurescens: Through A Blue Lens (32:00) – Hamilton Pevec (U.S.A.)
Beneath (3:36) – Beth Walker (U.K.)
Enoki and the Kind Kreature (4:59) – Madilyn Chandler (U.S.A.)
Hanna and the Book (2:32) – Juaco Garin (Argentina)
Heaven (1:32) – Jessica Fraser (Canada)
I Gotta Cry (2:51) – Francesca Colombara (Italy)
Mikoryzator (4:40) – Maria Subczyńska (Poland)
Mushroom: The Magical Fungi (9:38) – Prashant Kuhikar (India)
Mycelial Witchcraft (3:57) – Andrea Occhetta (Netherlands)
Osiris' Gift (1:35) – Kerry Howlett (U.K.)
Pharmakon (13:53) – Jean-Martin Gagnon (Canada)
Shroom Mates (4:30) – Rosie Windsor (U.K.)
Veiled Satyr (6:13) – Charlotte Janis (France)
Who's Who in Mycology (15:41) – Marie Dvorakova (Czech Republic)*
Wrought (19:26) – Joel Penner, Anna Sigrithur (Canada)
*This film will only be viewable at the live FFF screenings in Portland, Oregon.
All Flesh is Grass
Bethany Willacy (U.K.)
1:34 | Experimental
All Flesh is Grass is a short experimental animation about a character who discovers a mysterious fungal growth on their arm. They consume the fungi and this radically alters their perception of the world.
About the Filmmaker
Bethany Willacy is an animator and illustrator working in London. Originally from Texas, she moved to the UK when she was 15 and went on to study at Kingston School of Art. All Flesh is Grass is Bethany's graduation film. She has a long term fascination with fungi, nature, reading and all things strange and sentimental.
Azurescens: Through the Blue Lens
Hamilton Pevec (U.S.A.)
32:00 | Documentary
This story is a snapshot of the relationships that surround a potent hallucinogen. From the people who hunt for it to the people who are healed by it and the people who advocate for and propagate it.
About the Filmmaker
Hamilton lives with his wife and two children in Colorado. He runs a film production company (Faux Reel Films) and a mushroom extract company (Hamilton’s Mushrooms). He has combined his two passions and now makes movies about fungi with the mission to make mycology accessible and entertaining.
2022 Most Edutaining Award Winner
Beneath
Beth Walker (U.K.)
3:36 | Experimental
A meditation on growth, connection and symbiosis, inspired by the entangled lives of fungi. Made at the Royal College of Art, London, 2022.
About the Filmmaker
Beth is a filmmaker and visual artist based in London whose work spans short films, music videos, installations and live visuals. Her recent practice has centered around questions of reconnection; with community, the inner self and the natural world.
Beth’s approach is process led; often working with organic or reactive materials and allowing the work to be be guided by their unique qualities and behaviors. Beth is drawn to subject matters which are intangible and evading, but enjoys revealing these themes through bold imagery and rich colorscapes.
2022 Avant-Myco Award Winner
Enoki and the Kind Kreature
Madilyn Chandler (U.S.A.)
4:59 | Fantasy
A mushroom person trapped in the dwelling of an eerie creature is given the chance to escape through an unexpected quarter.
About the Filmmaker
A Michigan based CG Artist fresh out of university, Madilyn is a recent RIT graduate with an affinity for nature and wildlife. A lot of her work pulls inspiration from the things she'd find in the woods back home and a general fascination with the natural world.
Hanna and the Book
Juaco Garin (Argentina)
2:32 | Fantasy
Hanna, a young adventurer, finds the great lost library that she has searched for years. To her surprise, there is only one book in it.
About the Filmmaker
Juaco, Producer and Director at ARTAN Animation, also an animator, grew up in the countryside, where he developed a love for nature that is reflected in each of his works.
Heaven
Jessica Fraser (Canada)
1:32 | Experimental
The search for unity and connection. A place where all are one.
About the Filmmaker
I'm a Film Studies major and French minor at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. I manage a theatre on campus for the UBC Film Society, and I like to make short films and work on student sets!
I Gotta Cry
Francesca Colombara (Italy)
2:51 | Music Video
Two thieves steal the flying mushrooms and run through the desert, riding a giant camel.
About the Filmmaker
I'm Francesca Colombara and I'm a 2d animator and Comic Artist based in Italy.
Co-founder of CIANG, 2d animation studio.
My music video "Marte" has been selected by Kaboom Animation Festival 2022.
I collaborated with: Giphy, Fx Cake and Movimenti Production.
My graphic novel "PANIC!" has been published by Centrala.
Mikoryzator
Maria Subczyńska (Poland)
4:40 | Experimental
The film Mikoryzator is a poetic story about an alien who descends to the Earth in order to connect with the Earth's Mycelium with the help of a tool - Mikoryzator.
About the Filmmaker
Maria graduated from the University of Arts in Poznań, Faculty of Multimedia Communication. She creates art inspired by mycelium, inter-species communication and love. She seeks an answer to the question about the role of art and the artist in the Anthropocene era, in the "toxic culture" of divisions and conflicts, whose expression is the state of (un)health of individuals, societies and environment. She seeks ways to "rebuild links", to create a language that would have the power to create bonds, to exchange inter-genre messages.
Mushroom: The Magical Fungi
Prashant Kuhikar (India)
9:38 | Documentary
From the lens of a curious documentary filmmaker, the film takes you on a fascinating journey about exploring more than 200 types of fungi found in the dense forest of Gujarat. The film showcases the dietary, medicinal, livelihood and socio-economic aspects of fungi. Along with showing the different species of mushrooms, the film also shows the stages of how a fungi grows and how it is used at various levels.
About the Filmmaker
Prashant Kuhikar is currently working as a Production Assistant at the Educational Multimedia Research Centre of Gujarat University. He holds a Masters degree in Mass Communication & Journalism from Gujarat University and is currently pursuing his doctoral degree in the domain of Audience prespective in Regional Cinema. He has been an associate director for a Gujarati movie Mission Mummy (2016).
Mycelial Witchcraft
Andrea Occhetta (Netherlands)
3:57 | Experimental
Western witchcraft has a strong subversive potential, that is however weakened by the eternally maintained occult universe it is based on. Through the use of mycelium and the assimilation of its values, this movie speculates a new magickal practice that aims at expanding its revolutionary power.
About the Filmmaker
Andrea Occhetta is an Italian designer and artist from 1999, currently living in Milan. His art practice explores identity, rituality, connection with nature, and the social importance they hold. Having particular interest in socially useful design, he took a Master in Social Design at Design Academy Eindhoven, but left as he didn't find the involvement he was looking for.
Osiris’ Gift
Kerry Howlett (U.K.)
1:35 | Experimental
Osiris' Gift is a short stop motion animated film that follows an explorer in a desert searching for mythical 'immortality mushrooms'.
About the Filmmaker
Kerry Howlett is a stop motion animator, director, and model maker that has an interest in puppetry, prop and set making. She is enamored by the weird and fantastical, often incorporating this into her films.
Pharmakon
Jean-Martin Gagnon (Canada)
13:53 | Comedy
Like every winter, the boys get together for a weekend sprinkled with snow and psychotropic drugs. A necessary tradition to abandon oneself, to marvel and to trust the unknown.
About the Filmmaker
Jean-Martin has been directing short fiction and documentary films as well as music videos since 2014. As a member of the Coop Vidéo since 2016, he was also first assistant director on Un paradis pour tous and Un problème d’Infiltration by Robert Morin. His latest short, Puisqu’on se tue toujours trop tard, was presented at Festival Regard in 2019 and in a dozen other festivals around the world.
Shroom Mates
Rosie Windsor (U.K.)
4:30 | Comedy
Inside a hollow tree trunk two mushroom roommates decide to spice up their evening with some recreational drugs.
About the Filmmaker
I am a Director, Animator and Character designer from London,UK. During my time at Falmouth University studying BA(Hons)Fine Art I fell in love with creating characters and have taken much of my inspiration from the natural world. As this passion blossomed I used animation to make my characters come alive. I am now a recent Central Saint Martins MA Character Animation Graduate (2022).
Veiled Satyr
Charlotte Janis (France)
6:13 | Experimental
Veiled Satyr is a science fiction biological tale about the revenge of algae, lichens and fungi on humans: the revolution of microorganisms. Video made in Brest with microscopic shots shot on site.
About the Filmmaker
Born in 1988, Charlotte Janis is a French visual artist, who lives and works between Paris and Brittany. She is the co-founder of the artist-run space Le Wonder in Clichy. She also co-founded the SPORA collective, which is a Collective of multidisciplinary experimenters around mushrooms and fungi.
Who’s Who in Mycology*
Marie Dvorakova (Czech Republic)
15:41 | Comedy
A young trombone player spends an adventurous night trying to open an impossible bottle of wine. An unconscious girl, a crooked bookcase and some mold get in his way, turning his world upside down. When the night is over he is forced to commit the ultimate act of courage.
About the Filmmaker
Marie is a graduate of Prague Film School, FAMU. Following that, she pursued her Master’s Degree in Film Directing at the Tisch School of the Arts at NYU. Her narrative/documentary short films were screened and have received awards at different film festivals worldwide.
2022 Freshest Fungi Film Award Winner
*This film will only be viewable at the live FFF screenings in Portland, Oregon.
Wrought
Joel Penner, Anna Sigrithur (Canada)
19:26 | Experimental
A stunning visual exploration of matter in various states of microbial transformation begs fundamental questions about our complicated relationships with other species.
About the Filmmakers
Joel Penner is a filmmaker who uses scanners, microscopes and cameras to create timelapses of plants and fungi growing and decaying, with the goal of inspiring people to see the beauty of everyday existence.
Anna Sigrithur is a writer and artist whose work explores food cultures, food preservation, fermentation, microbiology, sensory perception and human/non-human relationships.