The Resistance of Honey

  • Peter Boyd Maclean
  • England
  • 2016
  • 9 min
  • Digital
  • World Premiere
  • IDFA DocLab Competition for Digital Storytelling, DocLab: Elastic Reality, DocLab Program

Welcome to the fascinating world of urban beekeeper Bioni Samp. His bees don’t just make honey – they also make music. Always clad in his beekeeper’s suit and mask, Samp makes audio recordings in the hive, then analyzes and processes these. But he doesn’t stop there – even the honey itself makes sound, and Samp has discovered that every honey has a different one. He processes them into experimental electronic music using homemade instruments. Samp regularly uses these sounds in performances, and deejays at ecological festivals. 360-degree recordings from inside the beehive and the shed/studio of this urban nomad are interspersed with close-ups of the world of the bees. But of course the sound is always the principal factor in this mind-expanding, immersive experience.

This project is a 360-degree experience.

Credits

  • 9 min
  • Spoken languages: English
Director
Peter Boyd Maclean
Production
BBC Research and Development
Executive producer
Zillah Watson for BBC Research and Development
Co-production
Peter Passmore
Sound
Byoni Samp, Ben Young

IDFA history

2016
World Premiere
IDFA DocLab Competition for Digital Storytelling
DocLab: Elastic Reality
DocLab Program

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