Screening of The Secret Life of Plants and Plant Music Performance

Name: Screening of The Secret Life of Plants and Plant Music Performance
Start: 2025-09-05T18:30:00-07:00
Location: 2665 Mission St, San Francisco, CA, United States, California 94110

Schedule

Fri, 05 Sep, 2025 at 06:30 pm

UTC-07:00

Location

2665 Mission St, San Francisco, CA, United States, California 94110 | San Francisco, CA

Whether you’re a plant lover, nature advocate, biotech enthusiast, spiritual seeker, or just a fan of Stevie Wonder, you’ve likely come across the film The Secret Life of Plants. Originally a book by Peter Tomkins and Chris Bird published in 1973, it explored the idea of plant sentience. Although the book was dismissed by the scientific community, the story evolved into a film that pushed forward the argument about plant intelligence. A few know that a fragment of the legendary film was shot in San Francisco, featuring some of the prominent figures of video art and electronic music at the time.
Revisiting the local history – living to the present as the Conservatory of Flowers – we invite you to a screening event, accompanied by a live plant music performance of Kal Spelletich. This is a chance to immerse ourselves in the groovy world of the 70s, to question our inherent speciesism, to reflect on the limitations of our 6-senses-based perception of the world, while also keeping a critical attitude towards some propositions of the film.
This event is curated by Anastasia Chernysheva, Research Fellow at Gray Area.
Get Tickets: https://grayarea.org/event/screening-of-the-secret-life-of-plants-and-plant-music-performance/