Photo of Jessica Oreck
Photo of Jessica Oreck

Jessica Oreck

“It’s hard to remember how the animation came about; so much of my work is intuitive, so much of it I don’t remember actually writing, I don’t remember editing, it just sort of happens. I do my best work when I’m sort of slightly asleep and I can channel this other entity, that has nothing to do with me, that wants to make this film.”

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    BEETLE QUEEN CONQUERS TOKYO

    JESSICA ORECK United States, 2009

    Director Jessica Oreck takes a philosophical and poetic look at insects in this lively documentary. Visually connecting the parallels between people and critters, cinematographer Sean Price Williams captures termites in astonishing digital close-up while mapping the buglike patterns of mankind.

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