Eric Hillenbrand
Hydro Logic - Immersive video and spatial sound installation (in production)
Hydro Logic is a cinematic meditation on the hydrologic cycle and the ever-changing shapes of water.
The narrative's four movements — evaporation, condensation, precipitation, and runoff — mirror the journey of water through the hydrologic cycle, offering a glimpse into the interconnectedness of all life.
Captured in the wilderness between Patagonia and Norway, the film's visuals and immersive soundscape transport viewers to a realm of natural beauty and wonder. From the frozen glaciers to the cascading waterfalls, Hydro Logic is a celebration of the power and mystery of water in all its forms.
Origin.
Water changes shape and phase like no other element, it freezes, melts, evaporates, transpires, condensates, hails, flows, wanders and circulates.
Science measured the increase of peoples happiness around waterfalls as to the negative loaded ions emitted by the falling water. How does water in its pristine presence and metamorphic process affect us? How does water correspond in space?
Hydro Logic is a artistic survey and deconstruction of the hydrological circle and the shapes of earthly water based on video footage and audio field recordings captured by director Eric Hillenbrand in pristine places at the edges of the hemispheres such as Patagonia in the south and Norway in the north.
The project is set to be a narrated audiovisual meditation on the hydrological circle and unbound to conventional formats. It intents to explore and research intuitive, associative and sensory story telling by using contemporary audiovisual technology. It is an endeavor towards the concept of slow media and is designed towards experience and contemplation spaces along the subject of the hydrological circle.
Key narrative format is a 45-60min anthology film essay, followed by a multi-disciplinary immersive video and spatial sound installation.