Stroud Brewery Film Club Presents: Fungi : The Web Of Life.

Stroud Brewery Film Club Presents: FUNGI: THE WEB OF LIFE- Narrated by Bjork. 

Including, a Q & A with Merlin Sheldrake.

Fundraising event- all proceeds go to Brimscombe and Thrupp Community Compost.

https://www.batcom.org.uk/

Doors- 7.30pm

Introduction - 7.50pm

Film - 8pm

Fungi: The Web of Life, a visual feast and ode to a hidden kingdom of life that sustains life on our planet. At its
industry premiere, the film received widespread praise. Its public premiere in the
flagship IMAX cinema in London sold out in a matter of hours. The British Film Institute,
who run the London IMAX report that they have received hundreds of requests a week
for Fungi: The Web of Life, making it their most requested film of recent times.

Fungi have important lessons to teach us and may hold the key to solving some of
humanity's most urgent problems. In recent years, there has been an unprecedented
wave of interest in fungi because of the ways they can feed us, heal our bodies, and
even help us remediate environmental disaster – not to mention the ways they change
our understanding of life on Earth.

A rich tapestry of cinematography, music and science, this is a film about the ways that
fungi have shaped life on our planet for over a billion years, and how we might partner
with them to adapt to the radical change of our times. Renowned mycologist Dr. Merlin
Sheldrake, author of New York Times bestseller Entangled Life
, is a featured personality and ambassador for the film. The film is narrated by the
Icelandic musician Björk, who speaks the story with magic and sensitivity.

These stories are spectacularly visual and uniquely suited to the Giant Screen medium.
The film features jaw-dropping time lapse photography of some of the grandest and
strangest organisms on the planet from the best fungal photographers working today,
including Steve Axford and Catherine Marciniak, Wim van Egmond, and Patrick Hickey.
Much of this footage depicts aspects of fungal life that have never been captured in
such high spatial and temporal resolution before. The action is set against the backdrop
of Tasmania's ancient Tarkine rainforest, largely unchanged from the time of the
dinosaurs.

With millions more species to discover, our exploration of the fungal world has only just
begun. “This footage has blown my mind,” Sheldrake commented, “I've watched them
again and again and I’m thrilled it’s finally arriving on screens around the world.”
Director Joseph Nizeti remarked that “it’s also fun and wonderful. The looks of these
mushrooms are so bizarre and stunning and provide a vivid encounter with nature.”