Apis

Beekeeping in the United Kingdom is experiencing increasingly difficult seasons. Apis – Latin for bee – is a short film which delves into how these relationships are changing due to the impending climate crisis. By examining these relationships through multispecies ethnography, the director pieces together the stories of three British beekeepers and examines the unique bonds each beekeeper has with their bee colonies. The director Gabriel Cowan aims to approach documentary filmmaking differently by mixing genres to create a strange and sensorial world in which the audience can lose themselves in.

This film is part of Student Films - Earthbound Knowledge.