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Waves, storms and tornadoes are heading for Germany, everybody knows this, the weather forecasters, YouTube and games developers. The climate scenario becomes a lot of hot air, data sloshing everywhere, shitstorms or floods of refugees. Language, metaphors and images are instruments of control. They are used to dispel - and instill - fear. How does the image function as a document, as fiction, trophy, counterattack? How close are manipulation and prediction? Is the weather still real? A film about storm images and the storm as an image: Stormchasers pursue weather phenomena with the camera to turn them into photgraphic trophies. In front of the greenscreen of the TV studio the weathermen points into the void. At the Max Planck Institute, birds fly against artificial wind. Lovestormpeople flood the internet with their skewed slogans. Escape games play upon people`s societal fears. On fruit plantations hail cannons shoot 130 db soundwaves into the sky. Which weather has become normality? Either way, "something massive is coming towards us."

Juliane Jaschnow: Studies of Fine Arts in the field of photography and cinematography at the HGB Academy of Visual Arts in Leipzig. Bachelor’s degree in communication and media sciences from Leipzig University. DAAD scholarship to study at the Lomonosov Moscow State University in the field of journalism/ photojournalism. Study abroad at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. Professional Media Master Class and PMMC Lab of werkleitz Society. Member of the Cinematic Initiative Leipzig FILZ. Stefanie Schroeder: Studies in art education, art history, communication science, University of Greifswald. Organisation of WBS70, independent culture centre, Greifswald. Guest student in media art, HFG Karlsruhe. Exchange student at Villa Arson, Nice. Studies in photography, class of Joachim Brohm, academy of visual arts, HGB Leipzig. Professional Media Master Class, Werkleitz Gesellschaft Halle/Saale. Member of the Cinematic Initiative Leipzig FILZ.