In this brief film, Marie Menken carefully probes the layers of a lush garden, shifting from the macro to the micro and then back again. “Marie’s films were her flower garden. Whenever she was in her garden, she opened her soul, with all her secret wishes and dreams.” (Jonas Mekas)

A set of three ‘film poems’ composed around the theme of the garden — the central one featuring hand scratched animated drawings. Margaret Tait described them as follows: ‘Round the Garden’ — right round and round again, ‘Garden Fliers’ — flighty cartoon and a stunner of a piano piece and ‘Grove’ — grave and sonorous.

True to Life was shot in my garden in Kristinehamn in Sweden. I had bought a few closeup lenses for my camera, and when I put them together I discovered another world and started filming it. Then I amplified the sound of the camera brushing against the vegetation. (Gunvor Nelson)

Gesamthof / A lesbian garden is an art — nature project that lives between the walls of an old Antwerp monastery. We follow gardener and artist Eline De Clercq as she relates the garden to topics such as botanical colonialism, the ambiguity of naming, the social expectations of women and the search for a lesbian identity.

Under the spell of Cathy Berberian’s voice, scraps of melodies and poems in my head. In love with spring and summer’s flowers I walked through streets and gardens, pastures, fields and forests and by the end of that summer 1995 I had a little film which ends somewhat melancholically with some chords of Gustav Mahler’s Traveling Journeyman‘s Songs. (Renate Sami)