Two Films about Becoming Plant
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3665862 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Laura U Marks (Simon Fraser University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 63 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Publication date | 2021-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Anthropologica (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0254-9212 • E-ISSN: 2224-6428 |
| Publisher | University of Toronto Press (PUBLISHER • CA) |
| DOI | 10.18357/anthropologica6312021328 |
| OpenAlex | W3163533645 |
| Language | EN |
Becoming like a plant involves spending time with plants, studying them, mindfully ingesting them, and changing one's scale-both shrinking and diffusing-to occupy the scale of a plant. A fiction film from Korea, Yim Soon-Rye's Little Forest ( In both movies, the protagonists develop self-sufficient, earth-friendly ways of living and, more or less emphatically, reject the capitalist social order. Each film is supported by beautiful cinematography, arising from the elegant watchfulness of Lee Seung-hoon, and the extraordinary intimacy and trust Malloy and Sniadecki gained with their outlaw character
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |