Seeds (2017)

When the time comes will you be ready to grow your own food? This is the question that sends Ian Page on a punk pilgrimage from tiny community gardens in Los Angeles all the way to the Global Seed Vault. Todd Chandler and Jeff Stark's second short film about artists and their obsessions began five years ago. At the time Page was making strange experimental videos and planning an international residency on a ship bound for the Arctic Ocean. The directors gave him a cheap camera and a simple shot list. Page's footage of dreamy icebergs and slushy oceans convinced the filmmakers to follow him to Los Angeles, where he was living out of a tour van. With Page's help, they devised a character and a backstory that challenges documentary convention. The result is a strange hybrid of fact, fiction, and pre-figurative storytelling incorporating Page's experimental video works, heirloom seeds, an American folk tale, Iggy Pop, and a small herd of reindeer that are definitely not polar bears.