A Beautiful Look at a Greek Tradition Involving 100K Homemade Rockets
Here’s a fantastic piece of visual storytelling: the New York-based production company Variable recently traveled to the small Greek island of Chios to document an annual tradition that involves Orthodox churches firing 100,000 homemade rockets at each other in a mock war. The resulting short film, embedded above, is titled “Rocket Wars.”
There wasn’t very much ambient light to work with during the 4-hour event, so the team had to do extensive tests with every kind of firework beforehand in order to know how to shoot during the actual “battle.”
Back in 2012, Variable released a popular short film that offered a look at the Indian festival of Holi in slow motion using a Phantom Flex high speed camera.
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