Abstract
The video work It Happened Tomorrow: Tiny Cli-Fi for Living with Higher Waters by Carlo De Gaetano was presented within the 2025 edition of the ARE 2025 – FilmEU Artistic Research Exhibition, titled Synthetic Rewilding: Between Nature and the Machine.
The work explores speculative climate futures through short, fragmentary narratives that imagine everyday life under rising sea levels. Drawing on audiovisual collage and climate fiction, it assembles intimate, situated perspectives that shift the scale of the climate crisis from abstract projections to lived, relational experiences.
Within the exhibition’s broader focus on the entanglement between natural and synthetic systems, the piece contributes a reflective and narrative approach, foregrounding how imagination, storytelling, and small-scale scenarios can open alternative ways of sensing and engaging with climate change.
The work explores speculative climate futures through short, fragmentary narratives that imagine everyday life under rising sea levels. Drawing on audiovisual collage and climate fiction, it assembles intimate, situated perspectives that shift the scale of the climate crisis from abstract projections to lived, relational experiences.
Within the exhibition’s broader focus on the entanglement between natural and synthetic systems, the piece contributes a reflective and narrative approach, foregrounding how imagination, storytelling, and small-scale scenarios can open alternative ways of sensing and engaging with climate change.
| Original language | English |
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| Media of output | Online |
| Publication status | Published - 2025 |
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