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The Pink Egg

April 22, 2017

71 minutes

Jim Trainor

Comedy Horror Documentary

Overview

Luis Buñuel’s observation – “You can find all of Shakespeare and de Sade in the lives of insects” – was the inspiration for this experimental horror movie, in which human actors wordlessly enact the life-cycles of wasps and bees. Its purpose is to depict with emotion, humor and unnerving specificity an alternative society that really exists and has nothing to do with human beings. A highly stylized depiction of nature in all her deceitful glory.

Movie Details

Release Date

April 22, 2017

Runtime

71 minutes

Director

Jim Trainor

Production Companies

Eusociality Pictures

Cast

Julia Zinn

Polistes, a paper wasp; queen

Lori Felker

Ampulex, a cockroach wasp; female

Molly Feingold

Crabro, a fly-hunting wasp; female

Chet Mazur

Arilus, an assassin-bug; female

Boki Bodunrin

Anoplius, a spider wasp; female

Vicky Yen

Sphecius, the Cicada Killer; female

Shelby Fossell

Parcoblatta, a cockroach; female

Christy Lemaster

Spider

Clare Britt

Tibicen, a cicada; female

Alica Da Cunha

Apis, the Honeybee; worker

Meredith Miller

Evagetes, a brood-parasitic spider wasp; female

Jenny Kendler

Microbembex, the Scavenger Wasp; female

Hounyeh Kim

Metopia, a brood-parasitic satellite-fly; female

Halle Butler

Polistes sulcifer, a brood-parasitic paper wasp; female

Jerzy Rose

Polistes sulciver; male