Marion Neumann
Artist, filmmaker, psychonaute
Eleusis-Society – Psychedelic Society of Switzerland
Geneva / Basel, Switzerland
Driven by her love of curious encounters, Marion Neumann is an intuitive filmmaker. Her work is rooted in personal experience, navigating between documentary and experimental approaches, weaving narratives between science, poetry, and contemporary social issues. Her work aspires to create a sense of wonder to reflect on ways of being in this world.
THE MUSHROOM SPEAKS is her 2nd feature film. As a cinematographer her most illustrious collaborators include Jiska Rickels, Pauline Julier, Michel Favre, Nicolas Humbert and Werner Penzel. Based in Basel and Geneva, she co-founded an artist collective and continues to work with fungi and other living beings.
Field of research | Area of activity
Cinema, mycology, psychonautics
Keywords related to mycelial space
Research, fungi, images, poetry, aesthetics, psychonautics, remediation, symbiosis, film
Related projects
The Mushroom Speaks, film by Marion Neumann, 2021
Selected exhibitions
2022 The Language of Mushrooms: The Interspecies Internet, Contemporary Gallery Kunming, CN
2020 Extérieur nuit – MOS ESPA, le mycélium est le message, Motel Campo, Geneva, CH
2019 MOS ESPA, le champignon parle, Motel Campo, Geneva, CH
Motivation
Fungi challenge me to explore the unknown, to look beneath the surface, to adapt, to respect imperfections, to slow down and always seek an alternative path. Through the fungal lens I tend to see the world in its innumerable connections. Fungi have astonishing powers to change things very quickly. And so do we.