Filmmaker Statement

Much of my work deals with comparing ecology or nature to human interactions inside familial living structures, especially from a feminine lens. I had been very interested in ant societal structure at the conception of the film in late 2020, especially that of leafcutter ants, some of which harvest and grow fungus like a crop. Ant males actually have only one chromosome so they are basically just husks made for reproducing and sperm, only the female ants are 'complete' genetically with a "father' and "mother' genome. I thought it would be interesting to explore the idea of the male's usefulness amounting to reproduction only, but putting it in the context of humans and the 'male provider'.