Teresa Mae Lafferty

The Mushroom

Told in a looping-narrative, “The Mushroom” is a short film about a couple who topples through a surreal free-fall where foraged mushrooms hold the macabre connection between life and death. Each repetition of the story reveals more ambiguous and nefarious layers of the characters being revealed.

The Writer

In 1956, a visionary writer undergoes a forbidden occult procedure to experience death firsthand - then returns to complete her magnum opus and confront the meaning of life (and death) itself.