white mushroom, black earth

White Mushroom, Black Earth is a doc-fiction piece about the permanent landscape installation The New York Earth Room. The film combines personal storytelling with the larger social/historical context of the art piece and its neighborhood —  SoHo. Because the installation itself is not allowed to be filmed, the filmmaker invited the visitors to stand in front of the camera for thirty seconds, where they were asked to express their experience with the earth room, without speaking.

 

By not showing the topic of the film, White Mushroom, Black Earth seeks to represent the abstract organic whole of The New York Earth Room experience in a provocative but non-intrusive way. By participating in the film, visitors deepened their understanding of their own experience of the New York Earth Room.