Director
BEEWILDERED COMPANIONS is an immersive ethnographic study on the socio-material entanglements of humans and honeybees in times of globalized diseases. Triggered by the migration of a small bee parasite from Asia, the culture of beekeeping in Europe today is deeply shaken. The search for new and better practices is also a struggle of different imaginaries regarding the ontological status of the honeybee as domestic or wild. Can and should a serious disease be controlled by medication or breeding? Or is it better for humans to give up control, as in the long lost craft of tree beekeeping? Only in the deep forests of Bashkiria the tradition is still alive. The cultural appropriation of this knowledge in Central Europe could be an important pillar for a sustainable solution to the crisis. Three multisensory-observational and three plurivocal-discursive chapters juxtapose the diverging inner attitudes with the corresponding practices of animal care.
Camera Operator
It is summer. Three friends set out on their journey. Life lies ahead of them. Falling in love and wanting, fighting and despairing. Having to endure themselves. Having to endure themselves with all their wishes and hopes and those of others. To dream? But what? Of what? Italy. The sea. Leon, Joaquin and Johanna. They are three lost people. But the world belongs to them.
