COMING UP:
Online Premier of the Final Cut
May 20, 2025 The World Bee Day
7pm (multiple time zones)
We will show the final cut of the film then take it back to studio for post-production. Think of it as a chance to join the editing process by sending your comments after viewing. Once the sound and color editing have been finally finished, the movie will be made available to public for future screening, free of charge.
SYNOPSIS
Two sisters film honeybees weathering the effects of climate change in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Across the country, honey is vanishing. Traveling from their mountaintop apiary across wilderness and wastelands of Bosnia, the sisters interview beekeepers and retell Islamic stories about the signs of the times.
WHY FILM?
Anthropologists also make films: to teach, to convey insights of their research projects through stories, to think through different media. Filmmakers also do research: to make compelling stories, to teach, to entertain, as well as to invite thinking. Beekeeping in the End Times is an independent film put together by two sisters and beekeepers. The production process blended the tools and tasks of anthropology and filmmaking to bring forth unusual, upbeat stories about multispecies love and human responsibility while seriously considering the signs of our world going to wrack and ruin. Courtesy of the Wenner-Gren Fejos Fellowship for an ethnographic filmmaking, a grant from the ACLS/Luce Program for Religion, Journalism, & International Affairs, and ISRF Foundation (Foundation for Independent Social Resarch), the co-directors collected 72 hours of footage, filming beekeepers and shepherds at 32 locations in the mountainous, riverine, and Mediterranean sub-climates of Bosnia and Herzegovina. A gifted musician, Mirza Redzepagic, wrote a highly original score, which blends maqam music, Sufi invocations, Balkan lore, and industrial beats to build up an atmosphere of the final times with all the twists and surprises entailed by honey hunting through a post-war, developing country. The film is currently in post-production.
RELATED VIDEO-ESSAYS
APOCALYPSE IS A HEARTBREAK
https://youtu.be/ajJtZL_VDkY
“Apocalypse is a Heartbreak” is a video companion to the keynote delivered at “Organizing for Apocalypse,” a workshop convened by ephemera & AlterEcos at Copenhagen Business School on December 8-9. The footage from the film (in post-production) and the talk explore the meaning of the heart and its darkest hours in Islamic eschatology and in Sufi practical metaphysics.
FILM SET PHOTOS
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