D1film

Lichens Are The Way
finished film

They do not represent a culture of more, but a culture of enough: lichens. And the two men who have dedicated their lives to them in the wilderness.

Lichens are amazing organisms that are unparalleled on Earth. They cannot be seen as individuals, like a hyacinth, a heron or a human, but they represent a relationship. The two entities that make up a lichen, a fungus and an algae, have for unknown reasons decided that living together would be better than living alone. Lichens represent a metaphor that would inspire humanity to survive in the future. Lichens represent a new story discovered by the enfant terrible of biology, Trevor Goward. He and his partner Curtis Randal Björk guide us through the film. A purely cinematic experience filmed in canadian Wells Gray valley, home of the wilderness learning centre.

 

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  • Lichens Are The Way
  • Director and concept: Ondřej Vavrečka
  • Editing: Sebastián Kučkovský
  • DOP: Patrik Balonek
  • Sound: Jan Richtr
  • Music: Michal Cáb
  • Apearance as themselves: Trevor Goward and Curtis Randall Björk
  • Producer: Vít Janeček (D1film, CZ, VIRUSfilm, SK)
  • CZ/SK 2024, 43 min.
  • World premiere: CPH:DOX 2024 NEW:VISION (20.3.2024) Award: Special Mention
  • The project has been developing during Dok.incubator SK 2023 with Vadim Jendreyko,François Sculier and Alex Szalat