Bee Sting is a queer, dramatic short film that I wrote, directed, and edited. It explores the lingering impact of religious repression on intimacy and the body. The film follows Paul, a young man drifting through a haze of hookups and loud clubs—until a sincere romantic connection begins to challenge his self-protective detachment. As past trauma resurfaces through symbolic imagery and surreal montage, Paul is forced to confront what vulnerability might cost—and what it could make possible.

Built on a non-linear, memory-based structure and composed over nearly five months of intensive solo editing, Bee Sting uses horror elements not to shock, but to externalize emotional truths that often go unspoken. Influenced by the dream logic of David Lynch, the immersive aesthetic of Ethel Cain, and the use of symbolic repetition in queer surrealism, the film treats form as its primary mode of expression. Whether through montage rhythm, sound design, or the symbolic return of a masked figure, Bee Sting reflects a central focus in my work: using structure, pacing, and sensory design to make emotion physically felt—and to communicate what can’t always be said aloud.