June-August. Phytography workshops 10.7. at 14.00-16.30. and 20.7.–22.7.2025 at 13.00 and 15.00. In the workshops, plants from the garden are collected and plant-based developments are made from them. Mok's two short films will be shown in the BSFF program on 21.8. at 21.00 in the old swimming pool in Rauma.

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July Phytography workshops, plants collected are combined with two household chemicals, and the process results in photographs on black and white film – without a camera. Participants will get to try out the ecological phytography technique in practice and examine the photographic potential of plants. Free admission.

At the BSFF film festival's Deep End film night in August, Jolene Mok's films People. Moves. Places(14'56'') explores how to capture the everyday atmosphere of people living in their home region and get them to express themselves so authentically that they may learn something new about themselves. The film is a choreographic documentary consisting of interactive field recordings from the fishing village of Siglufjörður in northern Iceland. Through repetition and physical gestures, an anthropological portrait of the residents gradually emerges—without words, only through gestures, for the viewer to interpret. The second film, Shop Watching (14'24''), presents 16 unique shops on Kawabata Shopping Street in Fukuoka, Japan. It is an anthropological portrait of shopkeepers, revealing the character of different shops through their everyday tasks. Admission to the screening on August 21 at 9:00–10:30 p.m. is free. Read more on the Blue Sea Film Festival website.

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Jolene Mok is a Hong Konger visual artist working at the interface of experimental filmmaking and botany. Since 2024, she has been developing 135mm photographic films using plant-based methods, utilising raw materials collected from nature. Mok is particularly interested in how wild plants, fungi and ecological foraging can be used as a starting point for making images. At the core of her artistic research is plant ecology and the question of how art and nature can interact with each other. Jolene Mok looks for spaces and environments where she can explore these questions in more depth - places where nature is present and where artist residencies support long-term experimental work.

From spring 2024 onwards Mok has been making and testing low-toxicity film frames in successive artist residencies in Sweden, Belgium, Saudi Arabia, the US, Andorra and Hong Kong. In Rauma she is spending the summer of 2025 in a three-month residency, focusing on the collection of local plants in forests, squares and urban landscapes. The work will culminate in an art photography book to be published in 2026, which will also become a documentary on ecological image making.