7 Walks with Mark Brown

Pierre Creton, Vincent Barré, FR 2024, 104 min, French OmeU

The filmmaker and farmer Creton and the sculptor and architect Barré have been working together artistically for many years.

This reflects their fascination with nature and those who dedicate their lives to studying it. With a 16mm film team, they form a community that follows the paleobotanist Mark Brown along the Normandy coast in search of endemic plants and which one is happy to join. It is not enough to photograph plants, only when you film them do you capture their soul, Brown's gentle voice resounds. He has dedicated his life to restoring a primeval forest in his garden. '7 Walks with Mark Brown' oscillates between attentive observation of nature, charmingly unobtrusive educational film, decelerated road movie and soft utopia. A cinematic herbarium and at the same time its own making-of.