Plant Parenthood
From the Archives
•
20-Mar-2024
A used condom lands on a sunflower and gives it sentience. Granville Davis directs “Plant Parenthood,” an endearingly bizarre comedy punctuated with “Sesame Street” like puppetry. We meet a struggling couple: Ronnie desperately wants children, but his wife, Margaret, seems to have moved on. An executive at a condom company, Margaret heads to the office for a sales meeting as Ronnie lounges at home. After tending to his many plants and, also, his bodily pleasures, a sunflower miraculously comes to life. The film exhibits the playful qualities of a children’s TV show while also touching on some realities of marriage and parenthood. -JM. Director: Granville Davis. Cast: Arielle Prepetit, Mario Haynes, BJ Guyer, and Granville Davis. DP: Jacob Trauscht. Producers: Amanda Seay, Granville Davis, and Nick Fraser.
Up Next in From the Archives
-
Skin of Man
When three friends take a road trip to an idyllic forest and drop acid, one is lured into a mystic web of hallucination and nightmare. Jimmy Joe Roche directs “Skin of Man,” an experimental horror film that creates vivid textures with avant-garde technique. The black and white film is free of dia...
-
Gather In The Corner
Affable instructor Bill visits a reluctant 7th grade class to run a drill with the teacher's new firearm. “Gather in the Corner” is a troubling snapshot of what it would look like to have armed teachers in American classrooms (unbelievably it’s a solution that’s been considered). Director & c...
-
Cupcake
wormgirl goes downtown for a treat.
wormgirl was inspired by the time-bending isolation that came out of lockdown. with nothing to do and no one to see, the scope of the day shrank from a full life of work commitments and relationships to a lonely, worm-like crawl. wormgirl shows the highs and l...
