Cosmo Sheldrake

A visceral journey through the unseen and unknown world of big wave surf adventurer Frank James Solomon, an intercontinental clandestine investigation blurring the lines between myth, legend and reality.

Au cours des dernières décennies, les bruits de la vie courante se sont frayé un chemin dans la musique pop et dans le monde de la publicité. Le phénomène remonte à la fin des années 1940, avec l'avènement de la «musique concrète» et de la musique expérimentale, emmenées par les pionniers Pierre Schaeffer, Karlheinz Stockhausen ou John Cage, et étoffées par la suite par des artistes comme Jean-Michel Jarre. Le duo français KIZ explore ici toute la richesse de ce courant en rendant visite à huit musiciens anglais, allemands, suédois ou américains, pour les suivre dans leur «chasse aux sons» et les observer à la table de mixage

What happens if you give magic mushrooms (psilocibine) to experienced Zen practitioners who have never used drugs? What does that teach us about the mystical experience of oneness with nature? Based on these questions, psychiatrist Franz Vollenweider and Zen master Vanja Palmers set up a legal science experiment in a monastery at the top of Mount Rigi in Switzerland. Exactly 50 years after the magic mushrooms were officially banned, a new story begins in what is now called the “psychedelic renaissance”. While in 2021 most studies with psychedelics mainly focus on their promising medical applications, Frans and Vanja are already going a step further. Can the combination of meditation and psilocibin help humanity get out of the mess we have created on ourselves and the planet with our neo-liberal society?

An animation exploring the evolution of mycorrhizal fungal relationships.

The gnarled limbs of an ancient temperate rainforest are reflected in the network of mycelium below ground. Here two worlds meet, enabling the magic which drives so much of life on earth. They mirror each other visually, . while providing symbiotic support. This cycle, powered by photosynthesis, connects sunlight and water from above with a thriving metropolis of microlife below, drawing carbon from the atmosphere into the soil where it is stored.