Music for Mushrooms
The heart of Film-making
By Marisa Radha Weppner
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In the fertile void of the pandemic, our personal and professional lives were in a state of flux. During that time my husband, the artist known as East Forest, casually floated the idea, “I might make a doc…” I know how much creative projects mean to him so I have always strived to be supportive. I simply said, ‘Sure, hon. Sounds great.’ Little did I know how the project would evolve – many hundreds of thousands of dollars later, 20+ terabits of footage, countless edits, an expanding team of industry professionals. ‘Music for Mushrooms’ was on a mission.
I have felt incredibly vulnerable with the film’s release. Strangers are literally seeing into our home, our bedroom, behind the veil of our lives as we hold space for transformation and healing. What I feel from viewers is an emotional depth they are surprised by. The heart of the film touches on our collective pain as a species yet delivers a message of hope for getting back to the simplicity of life’s joys. The film is about much more than music or mushrooms, it shows how we are all suffering, whether from personal or collective pain or both; existential and eminent dangers are ever present in our modern lives. With courage and honesty, we inspire each other, and hope spreads like a mycelial web. Love coexists with fear – for me the message is of holding paradox, coming out of polarization and into our shared humanity, which is both messy and perfect at the same time, like every creative process always is.
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