7 Summers
Bjarke Hvass Kure, Amitai Romm, Emil Rønn Andersen & Aslak Aamot Helm / Denmark / 2025 / World Premiere / 21 min
A documentation of an artistic experiment set within a state-of-the-art climate simulation facility at the scientific campus of Risø, located in the picturesque surroundings of Roskilde fjord.
‘7 Summers’ follows sections of a wheat field, a salt marsh, and a fallow plot from the surrounding local landscape as they are exposed to seven possible summers of the future, from intense heat waves to the early stirrings of a new ice age. Through a combination of AI, virtual production and timelapse these local plants are transposed into a range of imagined future landscapes.
Combining traditional documentary strategies with a synthetic visual language still in the making, the film creates a vertiginous feedback loop between present and projection, documentation and simulation, nature and artifice. Originally commissioned by the 2025 Singapore Biennial.
