Global warming and climate emergency stock video footage and stills imagery filmed around the planet. A library of moving images of the planetary environmental crisis, from the melting Arctic to the flooding islands of Venice and the Maldives; from protest rallies in New York and Paris to a changing way of life in indigenous Greenland. An archive of HD, 4K and drone aerial videos & photos.
An ongoing series of moving image artworks from our new geological epoch. Anthropocene art, exploring global warming, climate engineering, and other anthropogenic influences on our environment. Part of a PhD exploring how video art might approach the overwhelming spatiotemporal dimensions of climate change.
An interactive 360º from a small, low-lying Solomon Islands seaweed-farming community. Beginning with a view of the village children forming an “SOS” for their fast-eroding island, users can move around 360º VR in a stunning aerial panorama, clicking on hotspots to find documentary stories about Beniamina and Pacific Ocean sea level rise, climate adaptation, resilience, sustainable (carbon negative) agriculture, and so forth.
In an era when digital videos can be created in any shape, why do so few filmmakers stray beyond the four corners of the familiar cinematic rectangle? Where are all the jellyfish-shaped films?!
Iceberg and sea-ice works filmed in Greenland, May 2018.
During Covid-19 I found myself marooned for 3 months on a small, rocky, windswept island in the Norwegian North Sea called Utsira. Locals let me quarantine in the isolated lighthouse keeper’s quarters which seemed an archaically apt safe harbour to ride out the coronavirus storm. I was asked to do a “lockdown residency” and provide a video art piece each day.
We asked filmmakers to submit ONE VERTICAL SHOT encapsulating their lived experiences or hopes for the future on a single (extra)ordinary day in human history during the coronavirus pandemic: May Day, 1 May 2020. These shots were edited into a single Creative Commons vertical short film: Onwards, Upwards.
in the heat of the moment thermographically images nudes in Australian bush environments to explore — on an aesthetic level — anthropogenic (human-made) global warming. It uses a high-resolution thermal imaging camera generously loaned from Dr. Andrea Leigh in the UTS Climate Change Cluster (C3), where it's used to analyse leaf temperatures in Australia's arid zones. The imager records hundreds of thousands of points of heat data in infrared wavelengths before visualising them in colour spectra apprehensible to the human eye.
Adam is co-founder/director of the Vertical Film Festival in Katoomba in Australia's Blue Mountains. Along with his sister Natasha, he created the Festival, the world's first competition for vertical video, as a platform for exploring cinematic undercurrents that make us think about how we frame the world.
More details and a short essay on the format may be found at the Festival's website: http://vertical.video
A study of the fabled city of Venice, rapidly disappearing below the water line under rising sea levels due to global warming and subsidence.
Adam made this 4-minute video for Sydney Opera House's Greening the House program in late 2014. It shows how Jørn Utzon’s architectural design principles established a path towards sustainability for the House.
Five short vignettes made for the Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia (RFDS), South Eastern Section, featuring people whose lives have been changed by the Service assisting them in their hour of need.
The problematic phenomenology of climate change through the lens of the Early Renaissance polyptych.
5-channel kinaesthetic video installation.
An 8hr05min video triptych which deals with the sensory imperceptibility of climate change in our day-to-day existence — postulating it as one explanation for our collective inaction in the face of an existential threat.
The wanderings of a herd of camels lost amidst the roundabouts of an abandoned desert ‘suburb’ in the UAE. Single-channel HD video with sound.
A timelapse journey revealing a metropolis seemingly devoid of human presence.
Single-channel HD video with sound.
An exhibition of photographic stills & video art shot in and around Dubai after the global financial crisis.
Deserted, fully-signposted multi-lane highways cut swathes through the sand, only to end equally precipitously in the middle of nowhere; monuments to excess and the money that ran out.
In this online documentary, you can navigate your way through the web of streets that form the Old City of Jerusalem (Al Quds). The interface give you an impression of moving through it. Sometimes, you will find doorways that you can enter, doorways that take you into the hidden layers of Jerusalem.
Every year at the end of autumn, tourists and workers depart the Mediterranean islands of Greece, leaving behind hundreds of cats to fend for themselves. To the music of Sibelius'Valse Triste, we follow them through the beautiful, near-deserted island village of Oía on Santorini.
