To Live and Die in the Shadows: Meditations on Ferns, Survival, and Horizontal Gene Transfer is a 6-minute, experimental, animated, documentary, shot on 16mm and digital. 180 million years ago, through a chance horizontal gene transfer, ferns acquired a much needed light sensor (neochrome) that allowed them to modify and survive in low light environments. We should all be so lucky.

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