It’s not the first time that a movie has been shown to a vegetative audience but for some reason the idea of plants watching movies seems particularly absurd.
On the 5th floor of a building in New York, seven houseplants sit in cinema-like rows below a large screen. The plants are “watching” a travel documentary called Strange Skies, a six-and-a-half-minute video of an Italian sky passing from dawn to dusk and into darkness. The light from the film is projected on the plants’ leaves a...
