The Empirical Effect
- Year of entry
- 2021
- Registration number
- AD09043
- Date
2010
- Edition number
2/5 + 2 A.P.
- Comment
16 mm film transferred to video
- Duration
22 min.
- Color
Colour
- Sound
Sound
The Empirical Effect is a film shot in 16mm, and transferred to video, with a 22-minute running time. Its point of departure is the area called the “red zone” — the immediate danger zone of the volcano — around Mount Vesuvius, nine kilometres from Naples. The zone is inhabited by the survivors of the last eruption of the volcano in 1944. The scenes were recorded in a disused observatory close to the crater and in the urban area with the staging of a trial evacuation.
