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Director:
David Blair
Writer:
David Blair (writer)
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Release Date:
21 October 1991 (Germany) more
Genre:
Documentary more
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This surreal film is not for everyone more

Cast

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Father Bessarion ... Himself
David Blair ... Jacob Maker
William S. Burroughs ... James 'Hive' Maker
Florence Ormezzano ... Allellee Zillah
Meg Savlov ... Melissa Maker
Dr. Clyde Tombaugh ... Himself
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Wax oder Die Entdeckung des Fernsehens unter den Bienen (Germany)
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Runtime:
85 min
Country:
USA | Germany
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Sound Mix:
Mono

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2 out of 2 people found the following comment useful:-
This surreal film is not for everyone, 12 January 2007
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Author: Buddybaba from Connecticut, USA

We showed this at our local Art film movie-house. It is where it belongs.

Watch it if you think that David Cronenberg's adaptation of Burrough's book, "Naked Lunch," is too linear. If you don't know who William Burroughs is definitely avoid this. This has more to do with surrealist dream films than documentaries.

Delightfully mad IMHO.

Bees, Bouroughs, Book of the Dead. Egyptian myth.

Anti-War Sci-Fi Cyberpunk "My dead wife was in the hive. She fragmented." "They were the dead and vengeance was their life." "I was Cain." "The Planet of Television, transmitting the dead."

It's all pretty schizophrenic. Jacob Maker, beekeeper, in the land of the dead and the garden of eden, Iraq.

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