Path 99

A 45-minute audio-visual experience from media artist Grayson Cooke and composer Dugal McKinnon, combining electronic music with information discarded as "invalid data" by geoscientists.

"Geoscience Australia’s 'Digital Earth Australia' satellite-imaging platform uses satellite data to track environmental change over time, employing complex algorithms to filter clouds from the data and obtain a clear picture of the Earth from 700km into space. The filmmakers have taken that rejected cloud data, animated and presented it in time-lapse format, bolstered by a multi-channel electronic soundtrack, to be projected as an immersive fulldome planetarium show.

"The result is a remarkable representation of the cloud layer of Australia down Path 99, an orbit of the Landsat 8 satellite that passes directly down the centre of the country. Rendered in near-infrared and shortwave infrared light, Path 99 visualises atmospheric textures and phenomena invisible to the human eye. Roiling cloud systems, stormfronts, downpours and droughts are given life in a cinematic experience that goes beyond human perception." (Whānau Mārama: New Zealand International Film Festival)

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