She swallowed a bee. Reality didn't stand a chance.
BARE BONES is an experimental short film written, directed and scored by DEBBY FRIDAY. Conceived during the Covid-19 lockdown and shot in Vancouver, BC on 16mm, the film tells the story of a young woman who swallows a bee and begins to undergo a hallucinatory and transformative experience. Abstract visual sequences depict time and space fracturing around her as she succumbs to wave after wave of pure feeling.
Direction
Debby Friday's singular vision—every frame feels possessed.
Score
Original music that crawls inside your nervous system.
Cinematography
16mm decay and beauty collapsing into each other.
Director
DEBBY FRIDAY
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot entirely during 2020 lockdown, the film channels pandemic claustrophobia into something mythic and grotesque.
Debby Friday's pivot from electronic musician to experimental filmmaker places her in a lineage of artists like Lynch and Jodorowsky who treat cinema as an altered state.
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