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Know Your Mushrooms

2008 Canadian film

Know Your Mushrooms is a 2008 documentary film by Canadian director Ron Mann.[1][2]

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The 74 minute Sphinx Productions[3] film examines the counterculture Telluride Mushroom Festival,[4] held annually in Telluride, Colorado and some of the mycologists and funghiphiles that gather there such as Larry Evans[5][6] and Gary Lincoff,[7] author of seven mushroom identification guidebooks,[8] including the Audubon Field Guide to Mushrooms.[9]

The soundtrack includes music by the Flaming Lips and The Sadies.[2]

Know Your Mushrooms is more about hard science and gourmet cuisine than space-outs and the munchies.[10]

Synopsis

Director Ron Mann and his partners at the first Telluride Mushroom Festival in Colorado, collect and consume mushrooms of every variety, particularly the aesthetically unappealing.[11] Mushroom fans and fungi experts explore and investigate during the four-day festival. Gary Lincoff and mycologist Larry Evans lead a wild mushroom hunt.[12]

  • Day One: Displays of local mushrooms and cooking demonstrations.
  • Day Two: Discussion and lecture.
  • Day Three: Health effects of fungi and cultural roles.[13] Discussion include mushroom's potential, for example, possible anti-cancer properties or mythological significance in shamanistic cultures.[14]
  • Day Four: A parade. Quizzes and short animations present controversial fungi, such as magic mushroom and fly agaric, the documentary provides an in-depth introduction to fungi.

Cast

  • Larry Evans as Larry Evans
  • Gary Lincoff as Gary Lincoff
  • Andrew Weil as Andrew Weil
  • John Cage as John Cage
  • Terence McKenna as Terence McKenna
  • John Allegro as John Allegro

References

  1. [1]
    "Know Your Mushrooms: Fungus film on the button" Toronto: The Star
  2. [2]
    Jason Anderson Know Your Mushrooms. Directed by Ron Mann. (G) 73 min. Opens Jan 30 at the Royal (608 College). Archived 2011-05-22 at the Wayback Machine Eye Weekly
  3. [3]
    IMDB
  4. [4]
    Photo report from the 2008 Telluride Mushroom Festival
  5. [5]
    Larry Evans Larry's fungal jungal
  6. [6]
    Chris Knight "Know Your Mushrooms: You don’t win friends with salad, but you do with fungi" National Post
  7. [7]
    Jim Slotek 'Mushroom' full of cool people, facts[usurped] 30 January 2009 The Sun
  8. [8]
    Toronto filmmaker seeks to elevate lowly mushroom CBC 30 January 2009
  9. [9]
    Peter Howell "Spores score with Ron Mann" The Star 30 January 2009
  10. [10]
    Vaughan, M (30 Jan 2009). "Yes, yes, psychedelics do come into play". The Globe and Mail.
  11. [11]
    Howell, Peter (30 Jan 2009). "Fungus film on the button". Toronto Star.
  12. [12]
    "Know Your Mushrooms". Docurama.
  13. [13]
    "Know your Mushrooms(2008)". IMDb.
  14. [14]
    Mok, Kimberley (30 March 2009). "End Fungi-Phobia Now". TreeHugger.
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