Synopsis
The innocent Bee came to live in a big city, blending himself with the scheming Fly into the local corrupt officialdom day and night, witnessing all kinds of strange things in this world. After encountering many absurd events, the Bee gradually turned into a parasite just like his friend.
Su Xia
Su Xia is a professor at the College of Film and Animation, China Academy of Art. His circular-screen work CITY SQUARE was presented in the theme pavilion at Shanghai Expo and won many awards at both domestic and international festivals. His short fiction film DERAILMENT was selected for the 38thMontreal International Film Festival. His animated short film GOLD IS EATING PEOPLE was selected in Competition Unit, Annecy International Animation Film Festival. It is also selected in Competition Unit, World Festival of Animated Film Zagreb, Screening Unit of 24th Shanghai International Film Festival, Competition Unit of The Norwegian Short Film Festival, Competition Unit of Fajr International Film Festival, Animation Unit of CineCina Film Festival, Competition Unit of Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival, Competition Unit of International Animated Film Festival ANIMATOR, and Competition Unit of 26th Lund International Fantastic Film Festival.
Director's statement
This is a borderless allegory that exposes and satirizes the corruption of the privileged. Corruption is an expansion of human inflated ideas of privilege with uncontrollable desires, and If power is alienated into privilege, no matter where it appears, there will be corruption and extravagance. The animated short film, THE BEE AND THE FLY, with biting irony, seeks to reveal society’s absurdity through the eyes of two little insects, to bring into light the human world’s arrogance, extravagance, corruption and lewdness. The ugly underbelly of “high society” is exposed through the little insects’ encounters in the city, inviting people to contemplate on the scale of desire and the bottom line of morality.
