Wax, or the Discovery of Television Among the Bees Page #2

Synopsis: In this highly allegorical and experimental mockumentary, a man recalls the story of how his bees implanted in him a bee television, causing him to lose all perception of space, time, and self in the deserts of the American West.
 
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Year:
1991
85 min
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and as I opened the hive,

I knew that something was wrong.

There were voices

INSIDE the hive.

When I awoke,

I was watching the bees.

I realized that I didn't really

understand my job -

there were things I had to do, but

I didn't really know what they were.

So I went home early,

leaving Melissa at work.

"I discovered Pluto about 4pm

on the 18th of February.

Pluto seemed to be the most logical name.

There weren't many good mythological

names left.

And you may not realize that

that the fissionable element plutonium is

named for the planet, Pluto."

I was drawn to the bees...

I wanted to be in the dark again.

When the dark came,

I was able to stay awake.

I waited for something to change.

I began to travel...

I arrived... at a patch of land

hanging in the darkness.

It resembled the place of my birth.

I was born

on July 16,

in the house of my dead grandfather.

A place known as the Garden of Eden

near Abilene, Kansas.

James 'Hive' Maker left England in 1919

to invent this place.

Concrete trees bordered the property.

Up in the concrete trees, where

the concrete people.

On one side of the house

were the twin brothers:

Cain the Plowman, who had a lot

of fixed ideas

and his brother Abel.

When I was a child,

Cain killed his brother Abel.

After that

God put an "X" on Cain's forehead.

in order to protect him from vengeance.

Whoever killed Cain would die

thirteen times.

I read this riddle in my grandfather's

diary which I found in the library.

After that, I went for a walk.

I couldn't go beyond the perimeter

of the acre.

So I went indoors.

I watched the people in the trees...

and Cain...

as he left for another planet.

I decided that I didn't want

to understand what had happened.

I went to bed just as the sun was setting.

Melissa wasn't home yet.

The next day at work, I felt

especially sensitive

to what was happening inside

the machines.

I could feel the weapons

and the targets.

Inside the targets

I could feel that there were souls.

I was leaving my old self behind.

That afternoon, I could feel the

darkness around me.

I was on the edge of a journey.

That night as I watched television,

it occurred to me that the soul of a

person could fragment and decay

like one of 'Hive' Maker's ghosts.

I was lost...

The dead were in the sky.

I was their target.

They wanted me.

I knew that my suit would protect me.

I didn't want to tell Melissa

what was happening to me.

I was glad for the everyday

routine,

but I knew that I would soon have to

make a decision.

I separated from the ground...

I was a weapon.

Our battlefields were prepared for us

by the Defense Mapping Agency.

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