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And of course the much bigger/better-funded (but apparently less-original) "The Swarm" (1978):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Swarm_(film)



Wax or the Discovery of Television Among the Bees

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wax_or_the_Discovery_of_Televi...

>As the first film streamed across the Internet in 1993, the New York Times declaring Wax or the Discovery of Television Among the Bees an “historic event.”

>Blair performs in the film, which additionally features a cameo by William Burroughs. As an anti-war statement, Wax provided an early critique of the Gulf War and current-day drone warfare. A combination of innovative digital animation, found footage, and live action, Wax’s visual form is a unique representation of the technologies and politics that it critiques, which still reverberate today.

http://www.waxweb.org/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nl3eEzuLwPk

Wax or The Discovery of Television Among the Bees [85:00, 1991] [English version]:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6mXatS-4ns


Of course NYT would call it "an historic" rather than "a historic" due to the east coast H dropping. I'll show myself out :P




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