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This short documentary film was produced by the 2011 George Washington University Institute for Documentary Film. It played in the Best of D.C. Shorts 2012, the Atlanta Film Festival, the D.C. Environmental Film Festival, the Southwest Arts Film Festival, and the Colorado Environmental Film Festival.
I like the approach that this video takes to an ecological issue. It manages to balance information, humor, and emphasis on the problem. The fact that it takes more than one approach to the problem with the bee population probably was a big element in its success as a short film because more people were able to relate or gain interest in the topic.
ReplyDeleteThis video touches on some of the information I had researched for project 1, but I really liked how this video talked more specifically about bees in an urban setting. Whenever I've had interactions with bees kept in hives, it's been more in an agricultural area, so it was interesting to learn about how the hives can function in the city. I was also surprised when one of the women said she trains people in their 20s a lot, which I think is great and very effective because then the practice will hopefully stay in younger generations lives' for good.
ReplyDeleteThis is a cool little documentary style video that gives great shots of the bees in their environments and in the hives, but also of the city. I liked looking at the shots with varying focus and focal points, zooming in and out and panning while documenting the lives of the bees. I love that this is the second artist we have learned about (technically three since the other was a couple) because it shows how awareness is growing within the art community (artists like Jacque!!) to the declining bee population and how pertinent bees are to our natural world. The video had a nice split between being informative, aesthetically pleasing, and lighthearted towards a tentatively serious subject.
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