Swarm Season

In the shadow of Hawaiis Mauna Kea volcano a young girl Manu and her mother lovingly breed a colony of bees Meanwhile as Manus activist father protests the construction of a giant telescope on the mountains sacred ground a group of scientists study the landscape in preparation for our inevitable relocation to Mars Ambitiously linking the earthbound and the cosmic the intimate and the expansive director Sarah J Christman tracks these existentially fraught narratives with an acute attention to time scale and historical consequence As her monumental images gather force Swarm Season takes on a potent allegorical dimension