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Letter to a Cycad

Natural History Museum Denmark · Denmark · Documentary / Animation · 6 min · ♥︎ 471

Voiced as the 19th-century botanist who described it, an animated letter to the oldest cycad in Copenhagen's Palm House reflects on plant evolution and today's biodiversity crisis.

An elegant animated essay that connects an ancient plant to our planet's ecological crisis.

'Letter to a Cycad' is a visual homage to the historic Palmhouse in Copenhagen, and a reflection on the evolution of plants and our human impact on the planet. Using a fictional voice of the late botanist Frederik Liebma

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