Video still from Honey Bee, 2011, 3D stereoscopic video with sound, 7min 30sec
Resulting from her residency at the Texas Learning and Computation Center (TLC2), on the campus of University of Houston, Honey Bee is a layered video, audio, and computer graphics, all generated with 3D software and video camera, to create the sensation of standing among a swarm of bees. Honey Bee presents a playful fantasy of cyber bees with military weapons, while also contemplating impacts of government interventions in food as well as ecological disruptions caused by cell phone technology.
Hunter states:
"When considering the bee, an air-borne insect, as a subject for video, I thought it would be interesting to use 3D to give the viewer a sense of sharing the same space with bees, rather than having the insects recessed behind a framed picture plane. ... I intercut the narrator extolling the virtues of agricultural aviation with the sound of a swarm of bees."
60-second preview of Honey Bee by Allison Hunter
Also featured in Houston Arts Alliance current exhibition Hanging by a Thread, Houston's Culture Map "Weekly Picks," Nancy Wozny states,
"Trust me, there's some gorgeous animation as well as witty vintage narration. Bees in Hunter's hand are simply amazing."
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Lucerna Cinema, Prague, Czech Republic
December 8, 2011
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