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Know Your Mushrooms
2008 Canadian film From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Know Your Mushrooms is a 2008 documentary film by Canadian director Ron Mann.[1][2]
The 74 minute Sphinx Productions[3] film examines the counterculture Telluride Mushroom Festival,[4] held annually in Telluride, Colorado and some of the mycologists and funghiphiles that gather there such as Larry Evans[5][6] and Gary Lincoff,[7] author of seven mushroom identification guidebooks,[8] including the Audubon Field Guide to Mushrooms.[9]
The soundtrack includes music by the Flaming Lips and The Sadies.[2]
Know Your Mushrooms is more about hard science and gourmet cuisine than space-outs and the munchies.[10]
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Synopsis
Director Ron Mann and his partners at the first Telluride Mushroom Festival in Colorado, collect and consume mushrooms of every variety, particularly the aesthetically unappealing.[11] Mushroom fans and fungi experts explore and investigate during the four-day festival. Gary Lincoff and mycologist Larry Evans lead a wild mushroom hunt.[12]
- Day One: Displays of local mushrooms and cooking demonstrations.
- Day Two: Discussion and lecture.
- Day Three: Health effects of fungi and cultural roles.[13] Discussion include mushroom's potential, for example, possible anti-cancer properties or mythological significance in shamanistic cultures.[14]
- Day Four: A parade. Quizzes and short animations present controversial fungi, such as magic mushroom and fly agaric, the documentary provides an in-depth introduction to fungi.
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Cast
- Larry Evans as Larry Evans
- Gary Lincoff as Gary Lincoff
- Andrew Weil as Andrew Weil
- John Cage as John Cage
- Terence McKenna as Terence McKenna
- John Allegro as John Allegro
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