The Pink Egg

1h 11m

Comedy Horror Documentary

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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.

Cast

Polistes, a paper wasp; queen

Ampulex, a cockroach wasp; female

Crabro, a fly-hunting wasp; female

Arilus, an assassin-bug; female

Anoplius, a spider wasp; female

Sphecius, the Cicada Killer; female

Parcoblatta, a cockroach; female

Christy Lemaster

Tibicen, a cicada; female

Apis, the Honeybee; worker

Meredith Miller

Evagetes, a brood-parasitic spider wasp; female

Microbembex, the Scavenger Wasp; female

Metopia, a brood-parasitic satellite-fly; female

Polistes sulcifer, a brood-parasitic paper wasp; female

Polistes sulciver; male

Crew

Caroline Nutley