Marine Hugonnier
Apicula Enigma, 201335mm film26'
This film was shot in Austria in the Koshuta mountains of southern Carinthia, Austria.
As the film starts one can hear a whisper that says: « Nature doesn’t tell stories » which sets the film against the conventions of wild life films. It is an attempt to approach the “point de passage” which is the limit of the scope of representation as we know it, the point at which the animal realm begins.
The film recorded the factual truth of what happened on set. The beehive and the colony, the collection of pollen and fabrication of honey, the bees that swarmed to the nearest tree and then again to disappear into the forest. The production display of this film included filming the crew in the presence of the bees to attempt to picture the gap between our world and theirs following Serge Daney’s quote «Cinema teaches me to tirelessly touch with my gaze the distance at which the other one begins».
