Film Seed Festival is a farmer-grown, crop-powered , nomadic Film Festival, set up in different agricultural locations each year. The Festival preparations begin with the cultivation of any of a wide choice of edible, oil-producing crops depending on the location’s climate and soil parameters. After harvest part of the produced crop is processed to extract its oil content and following a transesterification process turned into biodiesel to power the festival with electricity. The rest of the produced crop is cooked to provide the festival attendees with free cinema snacks. The farmer is provided with a toolkit of Smart Agriculture technology, including soil and weather sensors to aid in the production of optimum crop yield, as well as a generator, film projector, projection screen and guidance in regards to organizing a film festival and the conversion of plant oil to biodiesel. The Festival is set up in the same field that was cultivated to provide the different types of energy that power it and the showcased films are picked by a “jury” from the local community. Film Seed Festival 2022 is powered by peanuts and takes place in “Livadi” on Tinos island, Greece.
Can the cultivated field be a place of circularity between the soil, the stomach and the brain? Can the farming practice empower and enhance the economic/energy independence and cultural resiliency of small agricultural communities ?

Eleni Michaelidi ,Project Coordinator
Vasileios Diamantis , Environmental Engineer and Professor at the Democritus University of Xanthi
Komi village farming community
Agenso, providers of Smart Agriculture technology

Repairing the Present received funding from the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology under grant agreement LC01641664.

Hypercomf is an artist duo living and working on Tinos island, Greece specializing in interdisciplinary projects based on collaborations between art ,science, design and technology. They explore themes of interaction between nature, culture and community with a focus on developing waste and energy management and circular tactics within the processes of artwork production. Recently completed projects include the design of Benthic Terrazzo, a series of floor tiles replacing part of the sand and concrete traditionally used in the flooring process with marine plastic debris collected from Greek island shorelines, Biosentinel a transportable community solar cooker, Neighborhood Brew, a wild yeast soda made from plants collected from downtown Athens city, Anthemis, a citizen-built archive of flora biodiversity on Syros island and their participation in the JustGoZeroTilos initiative, exploring different possibilities of circular utilization of fabric/clothing waste on Tilos island of the Dodecanese.