Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo
Film Information:
Year:
2009
Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo
Países:
Director:
Color:
Color
Format:
HD
Duration:
90 min
Production:
- GUIÓN: Jessica Oreck
- FOTOGRAFÍA: Sean Price Williams
- MONTAJE: Jessica Oreck,
- Theo Angell
- PRODUCCIÓN: Jessica Oreck, Maiko Endo, Akito Kawahara
Contact:
- Myriapod Productions
- Jessica Oreck
- 152 W. 77th St.
- 10024 New York, NY, USA
- T +1 646 825 1641
- F +1 646 825 1641
- E jessica.oreck@gmail.com
- W www.myriapodproductions.com
- www.beetlequeen.com
Synopsis
Beetles are at the center of this film, which starts as yet another documentary but slowly begins to produce a strange fascination in the spectator. Jessica Oreck is an entomologist who spends her life observing insects. Japan has a special relationship with them: the Shinto religion, which invokes the powers of nature and gives them a privileged role. Taking some customs that would be considered unbelievable for a Westerner –such as the purchasing and training of beetles for kids– the film explores the presence of the insect in Japanese culture, and this opens the way for a few revelations as well as some otherworldly images. Scientist Oreck defines her first feature length film as “Blade Runner meets Farocki documentary”. It’s worth seeing how neatly she has fulfilled that ambition, without making the film too distant from the Animal Planet universe and giving it a new dimension at the same time.