The Pink Egg

Apr 22, 2017

1h 11m

★ 0.0

Overview

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.

Genres

Comedy

Horror

Documentary

Production Companies

Eusociality Pictures

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Cast

Polistes, a paper wasp; queen

Julia Zinn

Ampulex, a cockroach wasp; female

Lori Felker

Crabro, a fly-hunting wasp; female

Molly Feingold

Arilus, an assassin-bug; female

Chet Mazur

Anoplius, a spider wasp; female

Boki Bodunrin

Sphecius, the Cicada Killer; female

Vicky Yen

Parcoblatta, a cockroach; female

Shelby Fossell

Spider

Christy Lemaster

Tibicen, a cicada; female

Clare Britt

Apis, the Honeybee; worker

Alica Da Cunha

Evagetes, a brood-parasitic spider wasp; female

Meredith Miller

Microbembex, the Scavenger Wasp; female

Jenny Kendler

A documentary of insect life in meadows and ponds, using incredible close-ups, slow motion, and time-lapse photography. It includes bees collecting nectar, ladybugs eating mites, snails mating, spiders wrapping their catch, a scarab beetle relentlessly pushing its ball of dung uphill, endless lines of caterpillars, an underwater spider creating an air bubble to live in, and a mosquito hatching.

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