White Hot Iron Rainbow
Maria Meinild / Denmark & Sweden / 2026 / World Premiere / 8 min
Thermal infrared study of how bodies react, adapt, and seek connections in a world shaped by surveillance and mediated violence.
A thermal camera is typically a tool used for military purposes and surveillance. Instead of registering ordinary light, thermal cameras visualize heat radiation and paint a colorful, distorted, and psychedelic picture of the world we know. ‘White Hot Iron Rainbow’ was filmed exclusively with thermal cameras and examines how bodies react, adapt, and seek connections.
Through the thermal cameras and a split screen, human forms become abstract and transform into heat codes, transforming life into patterns of temperatures and movements. But even within this technological abstraction, there are pockets of intimacy, desire, and resistance.
