I am the Weather investigates the connections between the weather, metaphors taken from the natural world and our digital reality. With Munch ́s iconic painting The Scream as a starting point, the film takes us on a speculative journey through the infrastructure we take most for granted; the weather.The film is built up in a fragmentary form: sunsets over an urban landscape flow into images of nacreous clouds, clips from servers, data-storage and communications centers that contribute to the release of huge amounts of CO2, which again create unstable cloud masses over the earth. In this way clouds in the atmosphere have a reciprocal relationship with the digital cloud. Existential angst turns in the direction of climate-angst, where the poetic text of sound images shows how various climatic elements have become personified via a new “I” inspired by Munch’s own words: “I felt a breath of melancholy – […] I stopped and leaned against the railing tired to death – looking out across flaming clouds of blood and sword […].”
What I Miss About People, and What I Don't Miss About People
Marte Aas
2017, 00:10:51