Acqua Alta

Venice is built on a hundred and eighteen islands. All of them paper. The water is not.

Transcript

00:00Venice is built on 118 islands.

00:04All of them paper.

00:05The water is not.

00:13Acqua alta arrives every autumn.

00:16The city has a procedure.

00:20Four notes means 140.

00:23There is a barrier.

00:25It is also paper.

00:31Everyone has been asked to stay dry.

00:39By morning, Venice has been folded again.

A mockumentary. Venice, Piazza San Marco, the Rialto and the MOSE barrier are real; this paper city and everything that happens in it are fictional. The siren is synthesised. Images and voices are AI-generated.

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