Cloud Factory
Cloud Factory is a short documentary video and oral history project about the phenomena of hundreds of people growing up in a rural Washington town and believing their local oil refinery was instead something more magical: a fairy city, a cloud factory or Disneyland. This short video featuring oral histories with locals to Anacortes, WA doesn’t pose any conclusions about the very real threats of living near a crude oil processing site. Instead, Cloud Factory touches on how oil refineries not only affect the air we breathe and water we drink, but how their presence enters into our dream worlds.
This video is a project by artist Kate Clark, filmmakers Corin Noronha and Em McCracken, with scoring by musician Sam Dunscombe. Kate Clark is a visual artist and ethnographer that focuses on community engaged storytelling projects. Corin Noronha and Emerson McCracken are a collaborative team of filmmakers and video producers that have been working in documentary film for the past 6 years. Sam Dunscombe is a musician and field recordist working at the crossroads of experimental music, audio engineering, and spectralism.
