The Flower

Directed by Haik Hoisington · 2010

Two societies, one flower: in one it is freely grown and enjoyed, in the other it is banned, and the consequences unfold side by side.

A sleek, wordless animated argument about the costs of marijuana prohibition, set to electronic music.

The Flower contrasts a utopian society that freely farms and consumes a pleasure giving flower with a society where the same flower is illegal and its consumption is prohibited. The animation is a meditation on the socia

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