A Year Along the Geostationary Orbit
One year through the distant eyes of meteorological satellite Himawari-8 – a hypnotic stream of Earth’s beauty, fragility and disasters. 35786 km above Earth, travelling at more than 11000 km/h, Himawari-8, Japan’s most advanced meteorological satellite, observes the Eastern Hemisphere day and night. For one year we look through the eyes of the distant observer. From solstice to solstice, from pole to pole, from storm to storm we watch Earth’s beauty and fragility, weather’s wonders, forces and disasters – from space, it all looks miraculous. Imagery created and animated by the filmmaker based on scientific observation data: Irradiation scans by the meteorological satellite Himawari-8. Numerical measurement data provided by JMA / BoM / NCI. Sound composed by mixing samples algorithmically based on video image content.
Director: Felix Dierich
Producers: Felix Dierich
Experimental, Documentary, Germany, 2019
15:59 min
Felix Dierich was born in 1980 and grew up in Lübeck, Germany. In 2008 he graduated from Oldenburg University with a diploma in computer science and arts and media as secondary subject. He lives in Oldenburg, where he has an IT job in the renewable energy sector. His artistic activity is in the fields of photography, short films and installations. He has been a team member of zwergWERK short film festival in Oldenburg since 2002.
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A Year Along the Geostationary Orbit
One year through the distant eyes of meteorological satellite Himawari-8 – a hypnotic stream of Earth's beauty, fragility and disasters. 35786 km above Earth, travelling at more than 11000 km/h, Himawari-8, Japan's most advanced meteorological satellite, observes the Eastern Hemisphere day and night. ...
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