Toss A Rose Over

Janelle VanderKelen · 2026 · 11 minutes

The green ones share stories of change in this travelogue from the vantage point of plants. In a canyon where all things move, these ancient beings urge humanity to reconsider acts of interspecies and intraspecies relation during a current period of intense anthropogenic climate change.

Program note coming soon.

Janelle VanderKelen is an artist and filmmaker based in Knoxville. Her films imagine alternative acts of relation between imperfect bodies (human, vegetal, geological, or otherwise). She uses animation and experimental approaches to make the agency of more-than-human entities visible for human audiences. Her films have screened at institutions including the The Museum of Moving Image and Anthology Film Archives in New York and Bow Arts in London.