What is the film about?

Urges in the undergrowth. Erupting fungal fantasies. Bursting botanicals… the dust and desires of a tiny alternative universe.

Imagining the sensations of attraction and pleasure in insects, and the seduction methods of the plants and fungi that beckon.

A little background information...

Personally I feel great attraction to certain things: texture, nature, colour, macro photography, reggae music (which had an impact on film’s soundtrack as well)… But I do find there’s this urge to always want to get closer and closer, almost ‘go inside’ the subject matter – if it were possible.

One day, when photographing a flower’s most intimate parts, I thought how thrilling it must be for an insect to climb right through to the delicious nectar /pollen. I wondered how an insect experiences attraction and pleasure: how would it feel to be inside a bee’s brain?

How was the film made?

Handmade combing traditional photographic techniques, 16mm, 35mm, OHPs, film and 2d animations.