
Luis Buñuel’s observation – “You can find all of Shakespeare and de Sade in the lives of insects” – was the inspiration for this experimental horror movie, in which human actors wordlessly enact the life-cycles of wasps and bees. Its purpose is to depict with emotion, humor and unnerving specificity an alternative society that really exists and has nothing to do with human beings. A highly stylized depiction of nature in all her deceitful glory.

as Polistes, a paper wasp; queen

as Ampulex, a cockroach wasp; female

as Crabro, a fly-hunting wasp; female

as Arilus, an assassin-bug; female

as Anoplius, a spider wasp; female

as Sphecius, the Cicada Killer; female

as Parcoblatta, a cockroach; female

as Spider

as Tibicen, a cicada; female

as Apis, the Honeybee; worker

as Evagetes, a brood-parasitic spider wasp; female

as Microbembex, the Scavenger Wasp; female

as Metopia, a brood-parasitic satellite-fly; female

as Polistes sulcifer, a brood-parasitic paper wasp; female

as Polistes sulciver; male