Apis - Latin for bee - is a film about three British beekeepers and their relationships with bees. The film investigates how their relationships are changing with their bees due to the impending climate crisis. Step into the strange sensorial world of Apis to experience documentary through an expressionist lens
Apis is the dissertation film I made for completing my master's degree in visual anthropology. The film lightly covers climate change regarding the June gap, how the beekeepers would feel if they weren’t able to beekeep anymore, and the effects capitalism has had on beekeeping. However, the film is not a standard documentary or ethnographic film. It has traditional documentary voiceover atop macro images of bees and artful yet strange scenes of a TV in a field and beehives burning.
Meet the Beekeepers
Ross Main runs Main's Apiaries and produces some of the finest Fife Scottish honey! Ross produces Fife blossom honey and also heather honey from the moors in Perthshire
Chris MacLeod is the chair at the Manchester and District Beekeepers' Association in Heaton Park, Manchester. The association's mission is to train and educate members in the art of beekeeping
Dan Cook has been beekeeping for around 20 years. Next summer (2024) he hopes to have his first honey harvest which he can sell under his new company Dan and the Bees
