Fragments of a Supercell

‘Fragments of a Supercell’ is a moving image work that explores how an entire ecosystem — humans, machines, animals and atmospheric phenomena — senses, engages with, and responds to the unfolding of extreme weather. Set in the pre-Alpine region of southern Germany, where cloud seeding has been practised for nearly a century to mitigate increasingly frequent hailstorms, the film investigates the blurred boundaries between science, belief, and embodied knowledge. Supercells — large, slow-moving areas of updraft and downdraft that cause violent thunderstorms — previously occurred every 20–30 years, but are now tearing across the landscape almost annually.
 
Through interviews, folk wisdom and more-than-human behaviours, the work assembles a polyphonic climate narrative that reflects the complexity of living with chaotic systems. The climate narrative offers sensing as both a distributed, collective act and a poetic, situated method for reframing planetary uncertainty.