TitleA Beehive in My Heart
GenreDocumentary
Duration63 min
Release date2019
DirectorKjersti Vetterstad
ProducerKjersti Vetterstad
CinematographyChristopher Horne Iversen
Assistant producerChristopher Horne Iversen
Co-producer
ScreenwriterKjersti Vetterstad/ Josep Maria Garcia
NarratorJosep Maria Garcia
Supported byThe Audio and Visual Fund, Arts Council Norway, Billedkunstnernes Vederlagsfond
Description A Beehive in My Heart is a documentary film that portrays Catalan beekeeper Josep Maria Garcia and his bees. The bees are under pressure due to various forms of human activity. In simple words, Garcia talks about his work as a beekeeper, and about the struggle to keep the bees alive when temperatures rise on Earth and the use of pesticides among farmers increases in scope. The film juxtaposes pictures of the beekeeper and the bees’ work with images of human installations, and animals and plants that live in and off the surrounding land.
TitleThe Agronaut
GenreDocumentary
Duration1 hour 30 min
Release date2014 (Planned release of new version of the film in 2024)
DirectorKjersti Vetterstad
ProducerKjersti Vetterstad
CinematographyChristopher Horne Iversen
Assistant producer
Co-producer
ScreenwriterMontserrat Canudas Jorba and Kjersti Vetterstad
NarratorMontserrat Canudas Jorba
Supported byThe Audio and Visual Fund, Arts Council Norway and UKS (Society for Young Artist Norway)
Description
The Agronaut is a documentary film that follows Montserrat Canudas Jorba, who lives like a hermit on her farm outside the village of El Bruc. The Agronaut takes us on a journey through time – from the era of fossils and into the future as Jorba envisages it – and presents the viewer to a cyclical perspective on life. The title of the film, taken from the pun Jorba uses to describe herself, plays on the Argonauts of the Greek myth of Jason and is an acknowledgement of Jorba’s own role as a navigator in the landscape she lives in and off. Jorba’s retelling of the history of the surrounding area, its landscape and the people who have inhabited it, is interspersed with images and stories from her life on the farm – a life lived in acceptance of the mechanisms that shape our surroundings. “We’ll all return to the earth,” she says in the film. “We too are biodegradable.”