Jaimie Baron is a Professor of Film Studies at the University of Alberta. She is the author of two books, The Archive Effect: Found Footage and the Audiovisual Experience of History (2014) and Reuse, Misuse, Abuse: The Ethics of Audiovisual Appropriation in the Digital Era (2020), and numerous journal articles and book chapters. She is also the director of the Festival of (In)appropriation, a yearly international festival of short experimental found footage films and videos.

Kristen Fuhs is an Associate Professor of Media Studies at Woodbury University. She writes about documentary film, the American criminal justice system, and contemporary celebrity, and her work has appeared in journals such as Cultural Studies, the Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television, and the Journal of Sport & Social Issues.

Introduction: the I and Thou of Honeyland 1. Salvaging the bees: Honeyland and the paradox of the observational fable 2. Ethological realism in Honeyland 3. "In Europe, no one was paying attention": Honeyland on the festival circuit 4. Observational time zones: the ethics of Honeyland 5. Feeling a life: sympoietic aesthetics in Honeyland