Bee War is a poetry film by Astra Papachristodoulou. It uses minimalist poetic technique and honey bee imagery to portray the organised chaos and unrest present in our natural world. The film points to a juxtaposition between text and texture, with the poet making a three-dimensional poem made of bio-resin from start to finish. A voiceover of short poems consisted of three-letter words dress the imagery throughout and build a narrative that is not fixed to one particular language as its narrative unfolds out of the global musicality of sounds.
Astra is a PhD student at the University of Surrey with focus in the experimental tradition across poetry, visual art and performance. She is a widely-published author with work featured in UK and international magazines including Ambit, Magma Poetry and Buzdokuz. Astra is the author of several pamphlets including Stargazing (Guillemot Press), and her work has been translated into Russian, Slovenian and Spanish.
