Temporally (2020)

TEMPORALLY tells the story of an Italian thunderstorm through the eyes of a Japanese painter The lightning itself fusions with its environment and creates a hypnotic point of view The sound in the video was recorded on the occasion of the exceptionally high water alert in Venice Italy The alarm is composed of two parts The first was the sirene in use under bombardments during WW2 whereas the second is designed by the University of Venice and should be heard during all the sleep phases yet not causing any panic The images themselves were shot during multiple thunderstorms in the mountains between Lake Lugano and Lake Como So an interplay of salt and sweet water Furthermore the title TEMPORALLY is a combination of the Italian word for storm temporale and the word for atmospheric weather tempo which in English means rhythm and rally thus a race of lightning in the end following in a recovery