The Pink Egg

Overview

Luis Buñuel’s observation – “You can find all of Shakespeare and de Sade in the lives of insects” – was the inspiration for this experimental horror movie, in which human actors wordlessly enact the life-cycles of wasps and bees. Its purpose is to depict with emotion, humor and unnerving specificity an alternative society that really exists and has nothing to do with human beings. A highly stylized depiction of nature in all her deceitful glory.

Directed by Jim Trainor

Top cast

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Julia Zinn

Polistes, a paper wasp; queen

Lori Felker

Ampulex, a cockroach wasp; female

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Molly Feingold

Crabro, a fly-hunting wasp; female

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Chet Mazur

Arilus, an assassin-bug; female

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Boki Bodunrin

Anoplius, a spider wasp; female

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Vicky Yen

Sphecius, the Cicada Killer; female

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Shelby Fossell

Parcoblatta, a cockroach; female

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Christy Lemaster

Spider

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Clare Britt

Tibicen, a cicada; female

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Alica Da Cunha

Apis, the Honeybee; worker

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Meredith Miller

Evagetes, a brood-parasitic spider wasp; female

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Jenny Kendler

Microbembex, the Scavenger Wasp; female

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Hounyeh Kim

Metopia, a brood-parasitic satellite-fly; female

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Halle Butler

Polistes sulcifer, a brood-parasitic paper wasp; female

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Jerzy Rose

Polistes sulciver; male

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