These films capture the ways the various botanical subjects move day to day and throughout the life cycle of the plants. They also reflect the ways that filmmakers and scientists capture movement and growth – through time-lapse, single-frame shooting, editing, reverse motion, and other techniques. Time also factors into the selection of the works, which range from Wilhelm Pfeffer’s pioneering scientific time-lapse plant studies from 1899-1900 to a short experimental film by Jodie Mack from 2021. In between are celebrated popular science films by British filmmakers F. Percy Smith and Mary Field and by an unknown American maker, rotating flowers and fruits as the subject in an early Chrono-chrome Gaumont process color film from Gaumont in France, and striking uses of floral imagery by experimental film and video makers, including Charlotte Pryce, Julie Murray, Rose Lowder, and John Smith and Ian Bourn.