"Types of Rain
1. Outside the range of normal atmospheric conditions:
(a) recently discovered caves
(b) anti-cyclones on Mars
(c) water columns, three kilometres deep..."
As weather patterns fracture and distort in the face of accelerating climate change, how do we define the types of rain than have come and gone, maybe never to return? How do we understand a future when we have failed to comprehend the past?
Filmed mostly around Adelaide, its hills, and the coastal regions of South Australia with some sequences from Victoria and New South Wales. The soundscape is constructed from a single sample of the spoken word: "parch". The text is adapted from "Types of Rain" in "Urban Biology" by Ian Gibbins (2012).
The video was originally developed for an exhibition at FELTspace Gallery, Adelaide, South Australia, in November, 2023.
