Laki Haze

Following the eruption of the Lakakigar volcano Iceland in 1783 a sulphurous haze shrouded vaste swathes of the northern hemisphere causing widespread crop failures consequent famine and disease across Europe parts of America North Africa and India It is estimated to have killed millions of people Using firsthand accounts from Iceland and from across Europe Rabans film connects this event with the current global political and ecological crisis It continues recent film investigations into the use of the long single take and revisits Rabans preoccupations with landscape film from the early 1970s