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Filmmaker's Journey Reveals Urban Bees' Hidden Lives

3/26/2026

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  • Martin Dohrn, a wildlife photographer, states that filming My Garden of a Thousand Bees transformed his view of bees.
  • The film, set in urban Bristol during spring and summer 2020, documents over 60 bee species and their habitats.
  • Dohrn uses a time-stretching filmmaking technique to reveal intricate bee life without relying on statistics.
  • Dohrn forms a bond with a leafcutter bee named Nicky.