film profile]. What do mushrooms (or fungi) really mean to human beings? What (decisive) contribution could they ultimately make to the salvation of humankind? By way of her camera, and assistance coming courtesy of mushroom specialists from around the world, Neumann allows mushrooms to take to the stage, displaying them in all their destabilising and atypical beauty.
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What really hides behind the generic term “mushrooms”? The complexity of these beings, caught half-way between the vegetable and animal world, cannot possibly be expressed through this label, which ultimately reveals little about their functioning and the way they approach the world. Beneath every mushroom there hides an invisible network of connections with other species, a labyrinth which allows them to exist but also to interact with other beings. Neumann ventures into this invisible, subterranean world, harvesting the stories which these complex organisms