7 Walks with Mark Brown

A botanist walks through France, tracing the fading presence of rare plants. A delicate film, slow-paced, intimate and kind.  

Mark Brown is a paleobotanist with a singular passion: recreating a primary forest before its rare plants disappear entirely. Over seven hikes, from Azier to Sainte-Marguerite-sur-Mer, he carefully documents flora, sketching, observing, and naming species in hushed reverence. The film lingers on his process, his patience, and his deep connection to nature. Only once does he hint at a past love—his voice momentarily unsteady before returning to the plants that define his life. In its final chapter, Herbarium, the film transforms into pure visual poetry: 16mm close-ups of flowers, accompanied by Brown’s hypnotic Latin incantations. A meditative, gorgeously unhurried reflection on nature. 

Can’t make it to this film during InScience in Nijmegen? Then you have another chance at our satellite edition in Wageningen. This film will be shown on March 22 at 21:00 in Visum Mundi. For more information, click here.