Wax or the Discovery of Television…

kinostr — Sat, 07 Sep 2024 11:05:14 GMT

Wax or the Discovery of Television Among the Bees (1991)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aq1PV8JcstA

Director: David Blair

Computer programmer/beekeeper Jacob gets a “television” implanted in his brain by a race of telekinetic bees, which causes him to experience severe hallucinations. (Also features a cameo by William Burroughs.)

from wikipedia:
As the first film streamed across the Internet in 1993 (at 2 frames per second), the New York Times declaring Wax or the Discovery of Television Among the Bees an “historic event.” That same year, the hypermedia version of the film, Waxweb, was one of the first sites on the World Wide Web, and thus has been repeatedly cited as a milestone of Internet Art. Waxweb has been presented in museums worldwide. Wax or the Discovery of Television Among the Bees was an early example of digital cinema, was one of the first independent films to be edited on a digital non-linear system, the Montage Picture Processor, and transferred from video to film for theatrical presentation.

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