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There are things in this world that are yet to be named

  • March 2020
  • 7mins

  • Documentary
  • Directed by

    Erin Johnson,

    Starring

    Chris Martine,

    Cheyenne Moore,

    Ariel Antoine,

    Tanisha Williams

    ...

    "There are things in this world that are yet to be named" centers around Solanum plastisexum - an Australian tomato whose sexual expression is unpredictable and unstable, challenging even the fluid norms of the plant kingdom. Footage of the team of botanists who recently used their Solanum research to explode notions of sexual normativity in any plant or animal is combined with a voiceover of letters sent between science writer Rachel Carson and her lover Dorothy Freeman. "There are things in this world that are yet to be named" is a meditation on erasure, indefinability, and the intersection of queer and environmental histories.