Making of Earths

As a contribution to understanding weather modification and environmental control, “Making of Earths” explores the persisting modern trope that the future is manageable. Following a year-long, documentary-led research, the film traces current efforts made across China and South-East Asia, to predict the future of Earth’s increasingly strange climates, in the shadow of attempts to control land and territory. A chasm widens between the lived experience of overwhelming uncertainty and the mass of data collected to profit from this instability. Life on the ground is mismatched with the planetary scale infrastructures of observation and management. Weather and climate become geopolitical. The film picks up on these themes and subverts the idea of knowing, instead opening up spaces of disorientation within the paranoid structure of totality.