Secret Life of Fungi: LIVE
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SHOW CREDITS
Creative Director - Simon McBurney
Creative Producer - Tim Bell
Technical DSM - Ross Flight
Sound design – Cosmo Sheldrake
Rehearsal Stage Manager - Sarah Finney
With thanks to Treatment Studio
Production – Fane & Complicité
VIDEO
Fungi: Web of Life
Wim van Egmond - mycelium timelapses
Steve Axford / Planet Fungi – mushroom timelapses
Patrick Hickey – mycelium timelapses
May Kindred Boothby – Animation: ‘the roots of life on land’
Entangled Life sprouting mushrooms - DRK Videography
Special thanks to Rachel Cargill & AMOLF / VU Amsterdam for the ‘The Blob’
Corentin Biscot – mycorrhizal network growth videos
Loreto Oyarte Galvez – mycorrhizal network stills and flow videos
Joe Togneri - mycorrhizal flow videos
AMOLF / VU Amsterdam – mycorrhizal flow / network videos
Henk-Jan Boluijt and the ARETHA engineering team at AMOLF – mycorrhizal lab videos
Anand Varma, WonderLab – ophiocordyceps timelapse
Sarayaku videos: Camera: Diego Forero, Sound: Andrés Villegas. Clips are from: Allpa Ukundi Ñukanchi Pura. Underground, Around, and Among Us. Gualinga, E, et. al (Directors) (2025).
SOUND
Entangled Life song created by Cosmo Sheldrake, track mixed and mastered by Vahakn Matossian
Sound of Armillaria network responding to block of wood – Stefan Olsson
Reggaeton Kichwa – José Angun Gualinga / produced by Cosmo Sheldrake
Sarayaku soundscapes – Cosmo Sheldrake
IMAGE