“Where there are no bees on the Earth, the humanity has a mere four years left to live’, said Albert Einstein. Einstein’s quote inspired director Gyula Nemes to explore this possibility.
Zero, his second fiction feature, starts from this premise and explores the interdependency between bees and humanity using a variety of cinematic genres: melodrama, burlesque, comedy. The story is accompanied by the buzzing of bees and the sound of TV commentaries, and there is no filmed dialogue.
But the lack of dialogue is compensated with a rich plot. The story revolves around the manager of an artificial honey factory who gets to taste real honey, and as a result decides to quit his job, move to the forest and become a beekeeper. But his bees start dying radiated by a nearby mobile phone mast. Together with his lover he launches an attack on everything that kills the bees: GM farming, factories, motorways. They become notorious celebrities and their fight triggers a revolution.
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you would have heard about the collapse of bees colonies worldwide. Zero takes Einstein’s foresight and the current bees situation and runs with them in a playful daring cinematic display. So book your tickets through Sustainable Living Festival now, or buy a EuRaw Stories pass.