A year with the last commercial beekeeper on the island. He talks to the hives. They answer in their own language. A patient documentary about a life almost no one will live again.
From the curator
He talks to the hives. They answer.
I put off The Last Honey Farmer for weeks — a documentary about beekeeping sounded like homework. It's the opposite. It's a year spent standing very still next to someone who knows exactly what he's doing, and knows just as well that no one will do it after him.
There's almost no narration. The film trusts the bees, the weather, and one man's hands. When he says the hives answer "in their own language," the movie has already shown you it's true.
A small, devastating thing about work and the last of anything. Watch it when you want the world to slow down.
— Sam
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