Over six years in the making, David Blair's Wax or the Discovery of Television among the Bees is experimental film-making at its most ambitious and inventive, and a fascinating pointer to the way in which new electronic technology is impacting on film and video work.


Blair's hero, Jacob Maker, is an operative at a US military base in the Alamogordo Desert (the birthplace of the Plutonium bomb). Jacob spends his days working on the design of high-tech weapons systems, until an interest in beekeeping inherited from his father (William Burroughs) leads him to discover a sinister secret pattern unfolding that he is unable to evade.


Told in an oblique visual style that combines archive material with brilliantly-integrated virtual reality and computer graphic sequences, Wax is a highly original tour-de-force that offers an intriguing glimpse of the 'electronic cinema' of the future.

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Over six years in the making, David Blair's Wax or the Discovery of Television among the Bees is experimental film-making at its most ambitious and inventive, and a fascinating pointer to the way in which new electronic technology is impacting on film and video work.


Blair's hero, Jacob Maker, is an operative at a US military base in the Alamogordo Desert (the birthplace of the Plutonium bomb). Jacob spends his days working on the design of high-tech weapons systems, until an interest in beekeeping inherited from his father (William Burroughs) leads him to discover a sinister secret pattern unfolding that he is unable to evade.


Told in an oblique visual style that combines archive material with brilliantly-integrated virtual reality and computer graphic sequences, Wax is a highly original tour-de-force that offers an intriguing glimpse of the 'electronic cinema' of the future.