Weather as cinema: Exploring fungal and weatherly creativity in film.

This article analyzes weather as enabler of, and able to make, cinematic art. I begin by exploring philosophies of weather and air, and then look at early films where meteorological phenomena receive acute attention alongside related media analyses. Afterwards I analyze two artworks, by Madge Evers and Anna Scime. Each was made by mushrooms sporifying on receptive media, respectively paper and analog film. This article includes original interviews with both artists. I identify fresh ways of understanding cinema but also weatherly and fungal creativity. Analyzing such artworks, I also think about how artists can develop art practices able to galvanize instead of eviscerate futurity. Consequently, I not only investigate more-thanhuman creativity, but explore how cinema can facilitate instead of block ecological healing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]