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Meeting old farmers from his home region, a young Slovenian filmmaker and a free-time botanist develops a deep curiosity in people's passionate relationship with fruits and fruit trees. He realises this relationship has a lot to do with the sense of time as well as it activates fantasy.


In the meantime, in Tokyo, a neuroscientist stumbles upon a strange archive document about the “Montemaggiore Pear Case”. Written by the Yugoslav agronomists in the mid 1960s, the descriptions of a fast-growing pear tree challenges all her presumptions about nature's ability to defy the passing of time. 


By investigating the heritage of fruit cultivation and the collective memories fruits hold within people, the respective journeys of two strangers become increasingly existential. 


Human-centred perspective and its corresponding narratives that were previously held unequivocal start to attenuate. The question arises: do the humans cultivate fruits, or is it the other way around? 


TALES OF FRUITS AND MONSTERS
fiction/docu, in development


a film by Božič & Marina Gumzi
based on the 2009-2020 field research carried out by Gregor Božič
photos: Gregor Božič (1,3), Jane Alden Stevens (2)




Meeting old farmers from his home region, a young Slovenian filmmaker and a free-time botanist develops a deep curiosity in people's passionate relationship with fruits and fruit trees. He realises this relationship has a lot to do with the sense of time as well as it activates fantasy.


In the meantime, in Tokyo, a neuroscientist stumbles upon a strange archive document about the “Montemaggiore Pear Case”. Written by the Yugoslav agronomists in the mid 1960s, the descriptions of a fast-growing pear tree challenges all her presumptions about nature's ability to defy the passing of time. 


By investigating the heritage of fruit cultivation and the collective memories fruits hold within people, the respective journeys of two strangers become increasingly existential. 


Human-centred perspective and its corresponding narratives that were previously held unequivocal start to attenuate. The question arises: do the humans cultivate fruits, or is it the other way around? 


TALES OF FRUITS AND MONSTERS
fiction/docu, in development


a film by Božič & Marina Gumzi
based on the 2009-2020 field research carried out by Gregor Božič
photos: Gregor Božič (1,3), Jane Alden Stevens (2)