SWARM
Ula Sowa / Fabian Driehorst & Viktoria Szabo / Germany
As a bee, you need to swarm a city together with your sisters in order to confront
unacceptable changes that have been forced upon you. Unless you fight united for your
future, nothing will be the same.
Release the bees!
Bees stand for the anger accumulated in every woman’s body. When finally
released, they all burst out unstoppable from so many women mouths.
In SWARM you are a bee. You grow up in a warm, meditative surrounding. Your
days are filled with one task, folding new bees from paper to populate the hive.
After police sirens force you to leave the hive you end up in the middle of a women’s
protest. You hear the testimonies of the protesters. Collect the statements of the
demonstrators and carry them out into the world like pollen. As a united swarm, you
resist the attacks from outside and you can build a new future together.
SWARM is a piece about the power of the collective to make change. Inspired by
Women’s Protests happening in Poland since 2016, SWARM is a call for action,
sharing the feeling of collectivism and anger. It says: “we are fed up with the current
system of inequalities. We need to change it. Let’s do it together!”. SWARM creates
a dream of utopia and wants to show the viewers that better realities are possible if
only we work towards them all together.
