4K color, stereo sound, English, Spanish and O’odham language,
English, Chinese and German subtitles.
Funded by Taiwan National Culture and Arts Foundation

Where Clouds Once Formed traces Arizona’s landscape transformation as the desert becomes a new hub for Al and semiconductor production. Moving through its altered waterways, the film reveals the tension between technoutopian promise and the ecological realities of a drought-ridden terrain. Guided by offscreen voices and the rain-calling Cloud Song of Tohono O’odham poet Ofelia Zepeda, it offers a poetic countercurrent that foregrounds ancestral knowledge against the expanding infrastructure of industrial “cloud” computing.