Waiting for the Storms

“In the last few years, escalating debates on climate change and its consequences have led to a resurgence of the future in the public realm. We’ve never focused harder on what the world could be like in 2050, 2060, and beyond. Despite all that, how can we explain that nothing is being done to fight global warming, or nothing worthy of the coming disasters?

While for decades science has been raising the alarm about the state of the planet, I believe that art must make a commitment to provide us with a culture of resistance by building new narratives.

There’s a difference between knowing and feeling. What you may hear idly or in a moment of distraction can leave you cold. But when you feel something, when it really hits you, it could inevitably turn out to be painful.

That’s what I’m trying to accomplish with WAITING FOR THE STORMS: that viewers are carried away by the images and the voices, that they are drawn into the film and ultimately grabbed by the guts. Beyond aesthetic and political considerations, I can help them fix their gaze on what they usually turn away from and, ultimately, provoke and confront.”