WHITE HOT IRON RAINBOW
Maria Meinild
(video work 08.20 min) 2025
White Hot Iron Rainbow explores how bodies respond, adapt, and seek connection in a
world shaped by global surveillance and mediated violence. Shot entirely with thermal
cameras—tools typically used in military and surveillance contexts—the film abstracts
human figures into heat signatures, reducing life to patterns of temperature and
movement. Yet within this abstraction, unmistakable gestures of intimacy, desire, fear, and resistance radiate.
CINEMATOGRAPHY
Maria Meinild
Adam Khalil
EDITING
Maria Meinild
SOUND DESIGN & MIX
Asbjørn Derdau
FEATURING
Anna Pehrsson
Studio DQ
First Aid Sweden
Stockholm Laughter Yoga
VOICEOVER
Rezarta Seferi
Adam Khalil
TEXT
FLIR For Your Mission: Border Surveillance – Teledyne FLIR Advertising
ARCHIVAL FOOTAGE
Confessions of an American Drone Warrior – Brandon Bryant interviewed by Hala Gorani, CNN, 2013
Predator Drone Operator Reveals Psychological Terror of the Job – Brandon Bryant on the Danny Jones Podcast, 2021
How Air Force Drone Pilots "Fly" The $32 Million MQ-9 Reaper Drone - Business Insider, 2023
MUSIC
Jenny Gräf Sheppard
Éliane Radigue
