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Mushrooms = Champignons

Canada, 1984
film

Mushrooms are deceiving. They can play tricks with your head. In this animation film, mushrooms are a powerful metaphor. Their metamorphosis suggests that lif..

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Algorithmically related works from our collection by description:

Those wild wild mushrooms

Canada, 1978
Similarity: 76%

Fungus plants

United Kingdom, 1931
Similarity: 72%

Microscopic fungi

Canada, 1960
Similarity: 71%

Metamorphosis

Australia, 1997
Similarity: 71%

Metamorphosis

Australia, 1998
Similarity: 71%

Life in the woodlot

Canada, 1960
Similarity: 70%

World around us: chain of life

United States, 1953
Similarity: 70%

Metamorphosis: Fly in the ointment

Australia, 1998
Similarity: 69%

The Snails = Le'escargots

France, 1968
Similarity: 69%

Man against a fungus

Canada, 1955
Similarity: 69%

Metamorphoses (K)

Canada, 1968
Similarity: 69%

Doom to fungi

VIC/Australia, 2004
Similarity: 69%

Garden = Jardin

Canada, 1971
Similarity: 68%

Nfbc Childrens Animation Collection No.2

Canada, 1980
Similarity: 68%

Fire

Poland, 1975
Similarity: 68%

Fungi and man

United Kingdom, 1983
Similarity: 68%

The Snails = Les Escargots

France, 1966
Similarity: 68%

Metamorphosis

United States, 1977
Similarity: 68%
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