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A young woman relates the dream she had right after the suspicious death of a journalist known for working on the Fukushima disaster. As she pauses, an oneiric journey unfolds that interweaves her animate surroundings with fragmented facts and rumors about the legendary Hashimoto Experiment from the 70s in which a scientist and his wife tried to teach the Japanese alphabet to a cactus. To manifest the consciousness of plants, they used a lie detector translating their electric output into sound, thus giving them a voice. While the ultimate goal was to make the cactus become a potential witness in the investigation of future crimes, the dream turns into a collective inquiry evolving through a spiral of threatening metamorphoses and mutations. Addressing the fractured nature of cinematic language, Elise Florenty & Marcel Türkowsky`s film is a psychic trance looking for new ways of communication.

Elise Florenty & Marcel Türkowsky are a franco-german artist/filmmaker duo working together since 2009. Combining the fields of cinema, installation, publication and curation, they have been exploring the multiplicity of the self through a spiral of metamorphoses that interrogate our power relation - always shifting - to the Other (« the enemy, the plant, the animal, the spirit, the dead »). Interweaving their respective knowledge in Theory of Cinema/Visual Arts (Nouvelle Sorbonne, Cergy-Paris Art School) and Ethnomusicology/Philosophy/Sound Studies (Humboldt University, UDK - Berlin University of the Arts), they have developed their multifaceted practice between diverse geographies (Europe, Brazil, Japan...) focusing on the (post) human condition in relation to transforming geopolitical landscapes ; natural, built and virtual environments and their multiple inhabitants and hi/stories. Their investigations mainly draw attention to the manifestations of the irrational, the survivals of the fabulesque and the mechanisms of resistance seen through a cosmology of signs and narratives activated by human and non-human protagonists and perspectives to rise alternative ways of reading the present and speculative futures.