Movie Details
Original Language:Latvian
The Tshroom
Audience Score
DirectorKatrīna Neiburga
12 min
Plot
Whilst I was studying at the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts a likeminded colleague Peteris Kimelis and I decided to find people who still grew tea mushrooms My memories of growing tea mushrooms were foggy in my early childhood on a table in the kitchen stood a three litre glass jar with a strange seethrough pancake that floated in brown water In spite of its appearance it was a drink that was far superior to all the Cocacolas and Fantas of today We placed a notice in the newspaper stating that we were looking for people that still used and grew the tea mushroom In the end the project became a notable advertising campaign for the good old tea mushroom it was in the press on television and on the radio A documentary film was made about tea mushroom growers that was screened in a specially organised Tea Mushroom Shop that was set up right in the centre of Riga where any passerby could get a free baby tea mushroom in a test tube
