
Smoke Light Stone Rain: Weather(ing) through the screen
film screening & live performance
Organised by Rosa Prosser.
Tue 20.05.2025 18:30-20:30pm
Atlas Cinema, SW9 7FA London
This screening is a series of short to medium length films encompassing elemental media and weather.
Smoke Light Stone Rain explores the possibilities of cinema for weathering. "Weathering", developed by Astrida Neimanis and Rachel Loewen Walker (2014), offers a response to the abstract nature of climate change, instead, proposing to bring climate change home, to the body. By attending towards the experience of climate within/upon our own bodies, we can bridge the distance between the enormity and resulting incomprehensibility of the climate crisis and "the immediacy of our own flesh" (562). In doing so, we offer up our bodies as archives of the climate, and remember the ways we continually (re)make future climates possible.
Through the shared space of this program, we tentatively ask: how are we as audience members weathered through cinema? how do the images and sound touch our bodies, reminding us of our own elemental entanglements? furthermore, how do we touch back? how does our shared viewing in turn weather the films unfolding? haptic spectatorship as we share this space.








PROGRAMME:
Light, Noise, Smoke, and Light, Noise, Smoke (6min)
Film by Tomonari Nishikawa
Rhythmic and hypnotic, Light, Noise, Smoke, and Light, Noise, Smoke is the latest triumph from analogue maestro Tomonari Nishikawa, a deceptively complex interplay between fireworks footage shot during a Japanese summer festival and the sonic imprints left by the same images on the optical soundtrack.
fragments/anecdotes (40min)
Film by Ang Li
fragments/anecdotes details the maybe unexpected encounter between documentary filmmaker Leon, and fossil hunter Jed. Upon their encounter, an intimate journey unfolds as Leon shadows Jed in his search for the "ultimate fossil". As the pair move through the fragments of fossils scattered across the beaches of Lyme Regis and the Isle of Wight, they weave shooting stars, rescuing voles, visiting museums and palaeontologists. The film invites reflection on deep and intimate time, with the images themselves becoming geological layers for us as audience to piece through.
See trailer here.
Live sonic weather performance from Prajvi Mandhani
by Prajvi Mandhani
Prajvi Mandhani is a multidisciplinary artist from India living in the UK, working across video, sound, performance, drawing and installation. She is interested in researching ways of locating and situating climate change within local surroundings and communities. Her work is often realised through a practice of gathering, preserving and digitally foraging in her local surroundings, responding to the weather, rivers, streams and puddles. We are excited to welcome her into this space for a live sonic weather performance to close the event.