Experiencing Interruptions?

Mushroom Magic

Irene Antonez, an artist deeply enchanted by the Fungi Kingdom channels her love into mesmerizing fungi-inspired art as she prepares for a high-stakes environmental conference. As she rigorously trains for her speech, a mysterious message from the fungi themselves disrupts her plans, forcing her to rethink her message and uncover a deeper connection with the natural world.

  • Var Sahakyan
    Director
    Lentil Soup, The Act of Film, Gravity Cafe, Aourtrage, Planet Roast, Falita
  • Var Sahakyan
    Writer
  • Var Sahakyan
    Producer
  • Irene Antonez
    Key Cast
  • Miheer Dhamankar
    Director of Photography
  • Alevtina Kavtreva
    Sound
  • Istvan Repas
    Camera Assistant
  • Irene Antonez
    Artist
  • Rebeka Csombordi
    Puppets cocreator
  • Project Type:
    Short, Student
  • Runtime:
    12 minutes 31 seconds
  • Country of Origin:
    Czechia
  • Language:
    English
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    Yes - Prague Film School
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
Director Biography - Var Sahakyan

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Director Statement
To know if he created art, the artist must come out of the process of creation, liberated from himself (or his Self). Therefore, it is not a brush, hand, camera or eye that the artist works with – but internal freedom. We have boxed everything into categories and have names for everything: painting, drawing, portrait, film, abstract, this – that. It works well for search engines and our convenience. But the deep urge of creativity comes in a formless force of creation. Breathe it into any form and there it is. It may be a meal, a canvas, or a dance. What you can touch, or experience is called “the work” of art, but “the art” is the inner experience of the creator in a given moment in which he/she manifests something into existence. Thus, the artwork which we can see or touch, is not the art itself, but the surface that bears the traces of that inner experience. It is all about the inner experience. And the purpose of having any work is that the work hopefully can, in some way trigger an experience or insight of a similar kind in the viewer. Therefore, the artist’s primary focus is not the result, but what’s going on within himself/herself at the time of the creation.