
SYNOPSIS
Honey’s been vanishing, beekeepers in Bosnia and Herzegovina complain. Two sisters travel across the country to find out why. Tracking the old honey routes from their mountaintop apiary through wilderness and wastelands of Bosnia, the sisters gather traces of climate change and Muslim stories about the signs of the times.
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ABOUT THE FILM
Beekeeping in the End Times is an indie documentary by Larisa Jasarevic and Azra Jasarevic, the co-directors, sisters, and beekeepers. It brings together ethnographic research and filmmaking to tell upbeat stories about multispecies love and human responsibility in the face of the world going to wrack and ruin. The co-directors are grateful to the Wenner-Gren Fejos Fellowship for an ethnographic filmmaking, the ACLS/Luce Program for Religion, Journalism, & International Affairs, and the Independent Social Resarch Foundation for making the production possible with their generous grants.
The filming took a little more than a year while the post-production took twice as long while Larisa and Azra sorted through 72 hours of footage collected across 32 site in the mountainous, riverine, and Mediterranean ecologies of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Mirza Redzepagic, a gifted Bosnian musician, wrote an original score blending maqam music, Sufi invocations, Balkan lore, and industrial beats to build the mood of honey-hunting in the final times.
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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