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The film is a post-human choreography of displaced plants and machines. The thirst for luxury and abundance is the force that keeps the capitalist machinery running. The dry wells and the thirst for drinking water is what the local communities in Estonia are left with as the fragile wetlands are being drained for peat excavation in their neighbourhoods. Millions of tons of Estonian peat end up in greenhouses in the Netherlands where peat is needed as a component of the soil substrate for phalaenopsis orchids. While the mass-produced orchids may seem like a pathetic mimicry of what once was an ...

Director: Kristina Norman

Keywords: horticulture | decorative gardening | greenhouse | greenhouses | koloniaalne pärand | kuuking | lilled kaupluses | lillekasvatus | planting flowers | orhidee | View all »