Fire Fly EYE is my response to the devastating re-making of the world brought on by anthropogenic climate change and corporate "stewardship" of our natural resources. A ritual of reclamation in the face of overwhelming destruction, invoked through filming discarded consumer products, sifting spectacle out of catastrophe.

Documentation of 16mm dual-projection expanded cinema work, hand-processed, Ektachrome and b&w film.

"a hot-orange missive from a planet ablaze... Laitala employs the factory-made detritus of the industrial world - light bulbs, bubble wrap, and wisps of artificial smoke - to signify the hot wave of inexorable doom."
- Michael Sicinski, Cinema-Scope, https://cinema-scope.com/cinema-scope-online/cross-purposes-the-2020-crossroads-festival/

Selected Screenings:
Artists' Televion Access (work-in-progress), San Francisco, 2019
CROSSROADS festival (online), preseted by San Francisco Cinematheque, 2020
Canyon Cinema Salon (online): Expanded Cinema and Cinema Expanded, co-presented with Shapeshifters Cinema, 2021