Seven minutes to break your brain and your soul. Ready?
A worker drone, David Blunt undergoes psychotherapy sessions and through this comes to face the meaning of his own existence. His life is allegorically represented and visually juxtaposed to that of a worker bee (a 'drone'), dealing with issues of existentialism and individualism in a modern neo-liberalist society. An M&B Arts Productions film.
Direction
Bosilkov and Radovic squeeze a feature's worth of dread into 420 seconds.
Cinematography
Bee/human visual parallels that'll haunt your next HR meeting.
Acting
Max Ledlie's dead eyes say everything the script doesn't.
Director
Boris Bosilkov
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The title's triple meaning: unmanned aircraft, male bee, and office worker — all expendable, all replaceable, all stripped of agency.
Made in 2014 but predicted the 'quiet quitting' discourse by nearly a decade. Radovic drew from her own experiences in London's finance sector.
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