DVD Release Date: Jan. 10, 2012
Price: DVD $29.95
Studio: Music Box
The 2010 documentary film Queen of the Sun: What Are the Bees Telling Us? examines the dangerous phenomenon known as Colony Collapse Disorder, which revolves around the disappearance of honeybees from their hives, a syndrome that has no clear single explanation.
Directed and produced by Taggart Siegel, the movie looks at the global bee crisis through the eyes of biodynamic beekeepers, scientists, farmers and philosophers, while chronicling the 10,000-year history of beekeeping and how man’s relationship with bees has been lost due to highly mechanized industrial practices.
Among the experts who appear in Queen of the Sun are biodynamic beekeeper Gunther Hauk, founder of the Spikenard Farm & Honeybee Sanctuary; writer Michael Pollan, author of the 2006 book The Omnivore’s Dilemma; and Indian activist and physicist Vandan Shiva, who speaks of the development of chemical agriculture and the effects of pesticides and genetically modified food on bees.
Price: DVD $29.95
Studio: Music Box
The 2010 documentary film Queen of the Sun: What Are the Bees Telling Us? examines the dangerous phenomenon known as Colony Collapse Disorder, which revolves around the disappearance of honeybees from their hives, a syndrome that has no clear single explanation.
Directed and produced by Taggart Siegel, the movie looks at the global bee crisis through the eyes of biodynamic beekeepers, scientists, farmers and philosophers, while chronicling the 10,000-year history of beekeeping and how man’s relationship with bees has been lost due to highly mechanized industrial practices.
Among the experts who appear in Queen of the Sun are biodynamic beekeeper Gunther Hauk, founder of the Spikenard Farm & Honeybee Sanctuary; writer Michael Pollan, author of the 2006 book The Omnivore’s Dilemma; and Indian activist and physicist Vandan Shiva, who speaks of the development of chemical agriculture and the effects of pesticides and genetically modified food on bees.
- 11/23/2011
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
Reviewed by James Scarborough
(June 2011)
Directed by: Taggart Siegel
Featuring: Michael Pollan, Gunther Hauk, Vandana Shiva, Horst Kornberger, Jeffrey Smith, Raj Patel, Carlo Petrini and May Berenbaum
A documentary of mellifluous beauty and feeling, Taggart Siegel’s “Queen of the Sun” buzzes with what is wrong with man (corporate myopia, widespread pesticide use and a not-so-fine disregard for the interconnectedness of things) through the plight of the world’s honeybees. It’s a lovely production. Scrumptious to look at, informative and a spur to action, it presents commentary (some scientific, some poetic, some semi-apocalyptic) by a cast of wildly different apiarists (beekeepers) linked by one common goal: the reversal of colony collapse disorder, by which bees don’t return to the hive. At stake here is not just the possible unavailability of honey on your morning toast.
You connect with the piece on several levels. First, there’s dismay. At...
(June 2011)
Directed by: Taggart Siegel
Featuring: Michael Pollan, Gunther Hauk, Vandana Shiva, Horst Kornberger, Jeffrey Smith, Raj Patel, Carlo Petrini and May Berenbaum
A documentary of mellifluous beauty and feeling, Taggart Siegel’s “Queen of the Sun” buzzes with what is wrong with man (corporate myopia, widespread pesticide use and a not-so-fine disregard for the interconnectedness of things) through the plight of the world’s honeybees. It’s a lovely production. Scrumptious to look at, informative and a spur to action, it presents commentary (some scientific, some poetic, some semi-apocalyptic) by a cast of wildly different apiarists (beekeepers) linked by one common goal: the reversal of colony collapse disorder, by which bees don’t return to the hive. At stake here is not just the possible unavailability of honey on your morning toast.
You connect with the piece on several levels. First, there’s dismay. At...
- 6/9/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Network
Reviewed by James Scarborough
(June 2011)
Directed by: Taggart Siegel
Featuring: Michael Pollan, Gunther Hauk, Vandana Shiva, Horst Kornberger, Jeffrey Smith, Raj Patel, Carlo Petrini and May Berenbaum
A documentary of mellifluous beauty and feeling, Taggart Siegel’s “Queen of the Sun” buzzes with what is wrong with man (corporate myopia, widespread pesticide use and a not-so-fine disregard for the interconnectedness of things) through the plight of the world’s honeybees. It’s a lovely production. Scrumptious to look at, informative and a spur to action, it presents commentary (some scientific, some poetic, some semi-apocalyptic) by a cast of wildly different apiarists (beekeepers) linked by one common goal: the reversal of colony collapse disorder, by which bees don’t return to the hive. At stake here is not just the possible unavailability of honey on your morning toast.
You connect with the piece on several levels. First, there’s dismay. At...
(June 2011)
Directed by: Taggart Siegel
Featuring: Michael Pollan, Gunther Hauk, Vandana Shiva, Horst Kornberger, Jeffrey Smith, Raj Patel, Carlo Petrini and May Berenbaum
A documentary of mellifluous beauty and feeling, Taggart Siegel’s “Queen of the Sun” buzzes with what is wrong with man (corporate myopia, widespread pesticide use and a not-so-fine disregard for the interconnectedness of things) through the plight of the world’s honeybees. It’s a lovely production. Scrumptious to look at, informative and a spur to action, it presents commentary (some scientific, some poetic, some semi-apocalyptic) by a cast of wildly different apiarists (beekeepers) linked by one common goal: the reversal of colony collapse disorder, by which bees don’t return to the hive. At stake here is not just the possible unavailability of honey on your morning toast.
You connect with the piece on several levels. First, there’s dismay. At...
- 6/9/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Magazine
Taggart Siegel’s documentary Queen Of The Sun is a fine enough piece of work, but it’s a shame Werner Herzog didn’t get to Gunther Hauk first. Hauk’s main function is to warn viewers about the pending catastrophe of colony collapse disorder, where large numbers of honeybees suddenly and inexplicably vanish. But Hauk, a protégé of the anthroposophist philosopher Rudolf Steiner, values bees for reasons beyond the fact that without them to spread pollen from plant to plant, some 40 percent of our food supply would cease to exist. At one point, he muses how worker ...
- 6/9/2011
- avclub.com
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