THE SKY IS ON FIRE

The Sky Is on Fire interrogates digital culture and memory through a virtual reconstruction of the urban landscape. Through the use of a smartphone application, it maps a territory by reconstructing it. The film trawls the Miami back streets, strangely deadened by the use of a technology that can “scan” the environment using a smartphone, and delivering an account in which only the surface remains. This technology generates a digitised reality, fixed outside of time, a form of digital ruins. A camera explores and probes the banality of these reconstituted places, while off-camera we can hear the voice of Chaz, an insomniac city dweller.