What does ‘Bugonia’ mean? Film’s writer breaks it down

Bugonia writer breaks down what film's name really meansIndependent

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00:00Yeah, it's sort of a Greek myth of a colony of bees spontaneously arising from the corpse of a cow.

00:08So very appetizing stuff.

00:10You could take that as a metaphor for contemporary, certainly American life or human civilization,

00:18if you wish, that there might be some opportunity or new life that could arise from the ashes of something that's quite corrupt.

00:26That's one way to look at it, but I think also we just liked the ambiguity of the title as well.

00:31It kind of sounds like an insect. It kind of sounds like a flower.

00:34It kind of sounds alien, but it also sounds like a place maybe that could be on Earth.

00:38And it might also sound like an illness that someone might have.

00:41So I think the non-specificity of it was also kind of attractive.