{"id":977,"date":"2025-10-14T14:24:20","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T14:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ercforagency.eu\/?p=977"},"modified":"2025-10-14T14:56:25","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T14:56:25","slug":"the-foragers-2-preview-screening-summer-grass-winter-worm-12-nov-2025-7-pm-bozar-brussels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ercforagency.eu\/index.php\/2025\/10\/14\/the-foragers-2-preview-screening-summer-grass-winter-worm-12-nov-2025-7-pm-bozar-brussels\/","title":{"rendered":"The Foragers #2: Preview Screening: Summer Grass Winter Worm, 12 Nov. 2025, 7 PM, BoZar, Brussels\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Join us for the second event in The Foragers series. Filmmaker-anthropologists Martin Saxer and Matja\u017e Pinter offer an exclusive preview of Summer Grass Winter Worm<\/em>. The film follows the caterpillar fungus, the world\u2019s most valuable parasite, to reveal its ties with ecology and economy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Each spring, Himalayan families climb to 5000 meters in search of the caterpillar fungus. This parasitic organism grows out of a caterpillar larva and has become the most valuable in the world. Worth up to \u20ac100,000 per kilo, it sustains precarious livelihoods in Nepal while feeding China\u2019s hunger for health, wealth and biotech innovation. What does this unlikely journey reveal about the fragile ties between ecology and economy? This question is at the heart of the documentary Summer Grass Winter Worm<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Filmmaker-anthropologists Martin Saxer<\/strong> and Matja\u017e Pinter<\/strong> will present an exclusive preview of the film (to be released in early 2027), bringing together years of fieldwork in the Himalayas and lived experience. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The screening will be followed by a conversation with the makers and film researcher Lennart Soberon <\/strong>(VUB) on how filmmaking itself can act like foraging: a way to notice, collect and make visible the hidden connections across mountains, markets and ambitions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bios<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Martin Saxer<\/strong> is a filmmaker and anthropologist. He obtained his PhD from Oxford University with a study on the industrialization of Tibetan medicine. His research has taken him from the borderlands of Nepal and Tibet to Central Asia, supported by fellowships at the National University of Singapore and LMU Munich. Since 2022 he has been principal investigator of the ERC Consolidator Grant project Foraging at the Edge of Capitalism at the <\/em>Rachel Carson Center in Munich. Alongside his academic work, he has directed three feature-length documentaries, of which his latest Murghab<\/em> (2019) premiered at Locarno Film Festival. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Matja\u017e Pinter <\/strong>is a visual anthropologist focusing on political ecology, social movements, and rural economies in the Himalayas. He obtained his PhD after over three years of ethnographic fieldwork in Mid-Western Nepal, tracing the legacy of the Maoist revolution and the transformations brought by the lucrative caterpillar fungus trade. His work combines film and photography to document how rural life is reshaped by shifting ecologies and economies. He has directed four ethnographic films: Takasera<\/em> (2016), Disenchanted Cinema<\/em> (2017), Taking on the Storm<\/em> (2021), and Mushroom at the Top of the World<\/em> (2021). He is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Rachel Carson Center in Munich. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Program<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

19:00 – Welcome and intro by Martin Saxer 
19:30 – Film screening\u202f 
21:00 – Discussion with Martin Saxer and Matja\u017e Pinter  
22:00 – End <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tickets<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tickets are available online through the Bozar website<\/a> at 6 (reduced ticket price for -26y) or 8 euro. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Picture credit: Still from Summer Grass, Winter Worm (dir. Matja\u017e Pinter).\u00a0<\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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