Film Screening: a seed, a deer, a seed
October 14, 2023 ✿ 3pm

Earth Theater, Carnegie Museum of Natural History
Presented in partnership with Touchstone Cinema & the Carnegie Museum of Natural History

A seed a deer a seed (2023) is a short film by Marianne Hoffmeister Castro that examines the conservation efforts at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center (Austin, TX). The film threads together stories and modalities of care and management of local ecosystems while bringing forth the alliances and challenges between plant, animal and human communities. What are the ecological alliances that need to be sustained in time? How long can the land management efforts continue to preserve balance on the local ecosystems? Who decides who needs to keep on living or who needs to be eradicated? By formulating these questions throughout the film, a seed a deer a seed becomes a meeting place to reflect on the human impact on managed landscapes but also on the entanglements with vegetal lives and nonhuman animals as agents in these conservation efforts.

The screening will be followed by a conversation with the filmmaker, Rachel Reeb, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, and Touchstone Cinema.

Touchstone Cinema is the curatorial project of moving-image artists Inbar Hagai and Rebecca Shapass. The ongoing screening series is dedicated to facilitating discourse around artworks that challenge and push the cinematic form.