Wrought: Dazzling timelapse shows how microbes spoil our food - and sometimes enrich it.

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In the short film “Wrought,” directors Anna Sigrithur and Joel Penner of Biofilm Productions highlight the intriguing and alluring qualities of mold and rot. From wispy spores sprouting atop a surface to liquifying cabbage to shriveling slices of fruit, the documentary timelapse flashes a variety of substances as they wilt and wither and ultimately questions our perceptions of the natural process.

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Directors: Joel Penner, Anna Sigrithur

Biofilm Productions
Biofilm Productions is time-lapse videographer Joel Penner (National Geographic's One Strange Rock) and writer/podcaster Anna Sigrithur (Nordic Food Lab Radio, Oxford Food Symposium's Ox Tales podcast).

Based out of Winnipeg, Treaty 1 Territory, we share a passion for the natural world around us, with a particular love of finding vibrancy and life in human-altered environments like back lanes or kitchen composts.

Collaborators since 2015 on projects such as invasive urban plant educational tours, edible weed cooking classes and many an excursion looking for a rare plant, fungus or animal, we feed off of each other’s desire to engage with and explore other species around us in creative ways.