Tropical Depression

Year: 2024

3-channel video installation, 30’31”

Tropical Depression is an immersive documentary film installation about the 2023-2024 Cyclone Season in the southern hemisphere, filmed using Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020. Beginning in November 2023 and running until the end of April 2024, the season has so far seen over 20 cyclones cause extensive damage across the southern Indian and Pacific Oceans. Taking advantage of the real-time weather engine within the flight simulator, Tropical Depression tracks these cyclones as they move across the planet, celebrating the cinematic nature of storms while also questioning the abstraction of violent weather phenomena as aesthetic experiences.