7 Walks with Mark Brown (Pierre Creton and Vincent Barré, 2024)Pierre Creton is a gardener and filmmaker based in the Pays de Caux region of Normandy. Barré and Creton’s partnership began while the latter was shooting his first commercially released feature, Secteur 545 (2005). Creton and Barré never appear in the frame but for an occasional hand to steady a small bud. “Beta vulgaris, subspecies maritima: Sea beetroot.”There is a utopian quality to these films, but Creton and Barré’s life in Vattetot-sur-Mer is not a retreat from the burning world. For Creton and Barré, to be grounded in one’s landscape is also to be open to the world.