Where Clouds Once Formed
Director(s): Su Yu Hsin
Film description: This film traces Arizona’s desert as it is reshaped into a hub for data centres and semiconductor manufacturing. Moving through altered waterways, the film exposes tensions between technoutopian visions and drought-stricken ecologies. Guided by offscreen voices and Tohono O’odham poet Ofelia Zepeda’s ‘Cloud Song’, ancestral knowledge counters the rise of industrial ‘cloud’ infrastructures.
Writer(s): Su Yu Hsin
Producer(s): Su Yu Hsin
Editor(s): Su Yu Hsin
Country of origin: Taiwan
Principal cast: Ofelia Zepeda, Julia Rodríguez ( both voice actress for the film)
Language: English, Spanish and Tohono O’odham language
Year: 2025
Duration: 14 min
Premiere status: Maryland premiere
