Presented at Lo schermo dell'arte Film Festival 2014

With this short documentary about millifere carniche bees, shot in the Koshuta mountains in Austria, Marine Hugonnier has produced an enchanting naturalist essay and a fascinating metaphor of the creation of images. The hive is like a camera oscura, a black box whose content is never revealed. Fascinated by the magic world of bees and their micro-utopian work community, the French artist shows how images of nature can be represented as genuine narrative stories. The film registers what happens on-set: on one side the hive with its residents, how they swarm towards trees, disappearing in the nearby forest, the gathering of pollen and honey; on the other the film crew, with their cinema equipment, working on footage. It examines the mysterious space between the cinematic gaze and the thing observed.