Accession is a work of exquisite textures cultivated from grains of film, the grains of the voice, and the grains of the field and the garden. The film springs from a trove of letters, written to accompany packets of seeds shared between friends and strangers, which collectively narrate centuries of American horticulture. To trace the connections between the diverse communities linked by these seed exchanges, Tamer Hassan and Yervant Tufenkian crisscrossed the United States over five years, shooting on a range of (mostly expired) film stocks and harvesting images of arresting beauty. Over these scenes, a chorus of voices read the letters aloud, patiently unfolding minor histories of American life and the social and natural relationships that shape its farms, flowerbeds, and wilds.