Destination Cinema at Michigan Tech

ROZSA CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS

NOV. 6 - NOV. 9, 2025

Language Unknown

Thurs., 11/2, 5:00 p.m.

October 8, 2023• byErin Smith

Language Unknown [Excerpt] from Janelle VanderKelen on Vimeo.

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Janelle Vanderkelen, 2022

This film embraces plant sentience as fact and speculates how beings of the vegetal variety might approach interspecies communication with humans (who are far more sensorially limited). Leaves, mycelium, and roots playfully examine how humans experience the world, and the (supposedly) silent watchers consider what language those swift blurs of human might possibly understand.

Screens in Shorts Program: Animated Encounters.

6:10 minutes
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