This movie is part of a series of “cinegraphic sketches”, short audiovisual enquiries on scientific themes. These sketches take the form of visual essays, mixes of quotes, sounds and visual matters, to build an aesthetic apprehension — i.e. a sensitive knowledge — of the regarded subject.
The word Pyrocene has been proposed by Stephen Pyne to designated the way we, humans, have created and now live in a fire age, in which the relation between humanity, nature and fire has been made prominent. As a consequence, the recent and rapid changes in this relation – the fact that the industrial age rejected the fire out of the cities thanks to electricity, and put an end to practices such as fire-fallow cultivation – created a form of instability. We could, then, attribute the massive fire we know these days as a nature still looking for our fire.
This audio-visual sketch is, then, an aesthetic attempt to seize glimpses of what fire is, and how we could engage or relation with it.
Made with Blender / AfterEffects / Ableton.
Bibliography:: https://aeon.co/essays/the-planet-is-burning-around-us-is-it-time-to-declare-the-pyrocene
