Lichens Are The Way

Synopsis

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.

Director Biography

Ondřej Vavrečka (1980, Prague) is a filmmaker, an artist, a musician, and a teacher at Film Academy, Prague (FAMU). Based in programming then changed into philosophy and linguistics. Then studied film school in Prague and Moscow. His films were honored by several prizes. He exhibited his material images, sculptures, costumes in both solo and group exhibitions. He performs music and composes it for his own films. He published multiple “filmosophic” texts. Nowadays he works on a musical documentary about the idea of progress called "1+1+1".