Teresa Castro is Associate Professor in Film Studies at the Sorbonne Nouvelle University, in Paris. A significant part of her recent research focuses on the links between film and animism, eco-criticism and vegetal life forms in visual culture. In this context, she published “The Mediated Plant” (e-flux journal, 2019), “The 1970s Plant Craze” (Antennae, 2020), and co-edited the collective book Puissance du végétal et cinéma animiste. La vitalité révélée par la technique (Dijon, Presses du réel, 2020). Her essays “The Past of the Future: A Vegetable Cybernetic Fable” and “Navigating Troubled Waters With Lichens, Fungi and Ruderal Plants” recently appeared in two exhibition catalogues (Hito Steyerl: I Will Survive, 2021 and Ciencia Friccion, 2021). In parallel with her research activities, she also works as an occasional critic and film programmer.