7 Walks with Mark Brown

$375.00

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University & College DVD (with PPR*) Digital Site License DVD + DSL (w/ PPR)

Directed by: Pierre Creton, Vincent Barré
Released: 2025 (educational)
Year of Production: 2024

Running Time: 103 min

Language: French

Subtitle Options: English Closed Captions

Subjects: Environmental Studies

Accompanied by a small crew, Creton and Barré follow paleobotanist Mark Brown across seven locations in Normandy as he seeks out native plants from which an ancient garden could be created and explains, with the loving tenderness of a true expert, the etymology, beauty, and scientific properties of the region’s flora.

Official Selection at the 2024 New York Film Festival
Official Selection at 2024 Toronto – TIFF Wavelengths
Official Selection at the 2025 Big Sky Doc Festival
Official Selection at the 2025 Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival

“Shows us an exquisite microcosm of existence, containing rich history, meaning, and mystery.” – RogerEbert.com

About the filmmakers

Pierre Creton (France, 1966) is a filmmaker and a farmer who lives and works in Vattetot-sur-Mer (Seine Maritime). He studied at Villa Arson, in Nice, and at the École des beaux-arts in Le Havre, after which he decided to move to Caux and concentrate on farming. To Creton, choosing a profession which is usually considered at the bottom of the social ladder represented his desire to take things as they come; and ever since 1992, when he also began to work as a director, it has also given him subjects for his stories. His movies have been presented at various festivals, including FIDMarseille, where in 2008 L’heure du berger won the Grand Prix in the French competition.

Born in 1948 in Vierzon, France, is a French sculptor, architect and director. He graduated from the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris. Having studied under the great architect Louis Kahn, he also has a doctorate in Urban Planning and a degree in architecture. From 1967 to 1975, he studied architecture in France and then in the United States. He practiced architecture and built social housing, rehabilitations, and the reconversion of the Théatre le Palace in Paris. From 1982 he stopped this activity and devoted himself to sculpture. In 1995 Vincent Barré made his first films, which bear the traces of his sculptural vision and his travels. His meeting with the visual artist and director Pierre Creton and the installation of a workshop in the Pays de Caux led him to regularly co-direct short films with him. These films have been shown at the FID in Marseille, and in various festivals in Europe.

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