An Audio-Visual Celebration of Mushrooms and Mycelium
The Fungi Film Fest (FFF) is the world’s only film festival dedicated to the beauty, otherworldliness, and human influences of mushrooms, lichens, and micro fungi. The annual Fest has hosted over 130 fungi-centered films from more than 30 countries since it was founded in 2020.
About the Event
Join Fungi Film Festival director Peter McCoy for a night of some of the best short films from the Fungi Film Fest’s first 6 years. After the showing, several of the featured filmmakers will take part in a Q&A session with audience members.
This event is presented by Mycoculture Research, Arts, and Development, which organizes the Fungi Film Festival as well as the Radical Mycology Convergence (RMC), a 4-day mushroom festival taking place in Mulino, Oregon from September 24–27. For more details about the conference, click here.
Selected Films
- Namai – 3:30
- Interstice – 11:30
- Batrachia – 6:45
- Fly Amanita – 4:20
- Grateful Dean – 8:20
- The Boat – 5:10
- Mycelial Rhapsody – 3:00
- Mushlings – 4:00
- Bumps on Sticks – 4:00
- Pondwater – 2:30
- Wrought – 20:00
- Studies on Entangled Life – 16:30
- Mycelial Witchcraft– 4:00
- Amanita – 11:00
- Shroom Mates – 4:30
- Autumn Aroma – 10:00
Tickets
Pay what you can, tickets for this event will be a sliding scale of $8-$15. | Advance tickets recommended
About the Speakers
Having first discovered a passion for fungi in his early teens, Peter McCoy has spent more than two decades developing means to promote and enable an increasingly resilient future for the modern mycoculture.
His work with fungi has included years developing accessible fungal cultivation and mycoremediation practices as well extensive writing on the history of human-fungal relations and the presentation of novel hypothesis on the nature of fungal growth, communication, and evolution.
Peter is the author of Radical Mycology: A Treatise on Seeing and Working With Fungi and The Mycocultural Revolution: Transforming Our World with Mushrooms, Lichens, and Other Fungi, as well as the founder and lead instructor at Mycologos, a mycology school and applied mycology research center based in Portland, Oregon. His work has been featured in the films Fantastic Fungi and The Mushroom Speaks, and in the books Entangled Life, In Search of Mycotopia, and The Future is Fungi.
Joel Penner is a National Geographic-featured documentary filmmaker based out of Treaty 1 territory in Winnipeg, Canada. His work delves into the beauty of mortality and decay seen through the unique perspective provided by timelapse photography. His most recent short film Wrought has screened at over 65 film festivals around the world, receiving 17 awards as well as being featured on CBC Gem. It is in a permanent exhibit about fungi at the Museo Interactivo Mirador in Santiago, Chile and is currently slated for inclusion in more exhibits. He is currently working on the film tentatively entitled Rebirth, a short film exploring the interconnectedness of nature and the challenge of finding hope amidst the climate crisis. His work has been generously supported by funding bodies such as the National Film Board of Canada, the Winnipeg and Manitoba Arts Councils as well as the Canada Council for the Arts.
Ger Killeen is a visual artist and writer whose practice moves in the space between the legible and the sensed. Working across digital printmaking, augmented reality, video, and sound, Killeen is preoccupied with what he calls scripted visibility — the way an image can behave like writing that refuses to be read, returning the viewer from the act of decoding to the sensuous thickness of looking.
His images layer natural forms — bare trees, birds, weather, fungi, the mountains and forests of the Pacific Northwest where he lives and works — with mark-making that hovers at the threshold of language.
Recent work extends this inquiry from the seen to the heard, translating the inaudible bioelectrical life of plants and fungi into synthesized, half-formed speech — murmurs that gather toward words and dissolve again as a listener approaches or withdraws. Across media, the work stays faithful to the half-seen and the half-heard, inviting the viewer into an encounter that is interactive, embodied, and deliberately incomplete.
His visual work, video, and critical writing on phenomenology and appearance have been shown in independent galleries and published in literary journals.
Tristan Stoch is a filmmaker whose career spans documentary, narrative and stop-motion animation. As a life-long resident of the Pacific Northwest, he made the documentary series Mushroom Seasons to celebrate both the cultural diversity and biodiversity of the region.
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Frequently Asked Questions
To guarantee a seat at this event, we recommend you purchase your ticket in advance. Please show your ticket at the check-in table in front of the theater upon arrival.
We will usually have tickets available at the door. They are first-come, first-served.
Yes, Epicurean Group will be providing a taco bar and canned alcoholic beverages. In addition to the cart, our Empirical Cafe will be open with prepackaged salads, sandwiches, movie snacks and N/A drinks. No outside food or drink is allowed.
The Empirical Theater has an upper-level wheelchair accessible entrance and theater restrooms; due to the layout of the theater the lower-level main entrance is only accessible by stairs. Please check in with a Guest Services Representative or volunteer for assistance in locating these areas.
Several daytime documentaries and newer evening full-features offer closed captions, audio description, and volume amplification. The CaptiView closed caption units allow guests to see captions for their show by using a cup holder device that they can adjust within their view, and the Fidelio RX audio description units deliver descriptive narration and can also amplify the theater volume and dialogue.
The Showing Today signs updated daily at the front desk and theater entrance indicate which features offer closed captions (CC) and audio description (AD), while volume amplification is available for all theater content including events such as Science Pub and Reel Science.
Limited quantities of the following devices are available for theater guests and may be requested at either the Front Desk or Concierge Desk as well as from the theater usher:
- CaptiView closed caption (CC) viewing devices
- Fidelio RX audio description and volume amplification units
- Williams Sound NKL-001 neck loops designed to work with hearing aids equipped with a telephone coil or T-Switch
The rough inside measurements of the seats not including arm and back rests:
- Theater seats 16.5” wide and 21.5” deep
- Two accessible seating area chairs 39.29″ high, 29.5″ wide, and 29″ deep
- Additional accessible seating area chairs available by request is 23.5” wide and 21.5” deep
- The weight capacity for the accessible seating area chairs are 500lbs, and the additional accessible seating area chairs support between 200lbs-250lbs
Earplugs can be requested from the Front Desk and Concierge Desk, and sensory resource packs that include:
- Noise reducing headphones
- Fidget toys
- Sunglasses
- Visual and auditory timer
- 2 pound weighted shoulder wrap
- Sanitizing wipes
Please contact OMSI Guest Services at (503) 797-4000 or Info@OMSI.edu with any additional specific questions or needs
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