7 Walks with Mark Brown - Pierre Creton & Vincent Barré

Accompanied by a small crew, Pierre Creton and Vincent Barré journey through seven sites in Normandy alongside paleobotanist Mark Brown, whose quest is to rediscover native plants capable of reviving an ancient garden. Structured in two parts and unfolding across seven chapters, the film follows Brown as he leads the team on excursions connected to his broader research project, The Dawn of Flowers. The second part is the 16mm footage shot by Sophie Roger and Antoine Pirotte and can be viewed as a cinematic 'Herbarium'. In the process the film becomes a collective exploration of landscape and knowledge — an invitation to rediscover the quiet splendour of the natural world.
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Born in 1966 in Seine-Maritime, Pierre Creton is an artist and filmmaker. He was a student at the École des Beaux-Arts in Le Havre. In 1991, after graduating, he became a farm worker which had a great impact on his filmmaking. He lives and works in the Pays de Caux region which he never tires of capturing and filming. 

Sculptor and director Vincent Barré was born in Vierzon in 1948. He lives and works in Paris, Normandy and the Loiret region. He was workshop manager at the Beaux-Arts in Paris from 1995 to 2011. His meeting with visual artist and film director Pierre Creton and the establishment of a studio in the Pays de Caux led him to regularly co-direct short films with him. These films have been shown at the FID in Marseille and at various festivals in Europe.