The Day I Became A Cloud

the day I became a cloud

A documentary about a German-Italian dance company that develops the performance "The day I became a cloud" about analogue movements in the age of digital transformation, embedded in a cinematic essay about the dissolution of our physical world.

„The choreographer did a beautiful job turning a concept - the afterlife - into a dance performance. It was interesting to see how he brought his vision of what the dance should feel like to the performers and how the dancers executed his ideas. The filmmakers captured the dance perfectly as it played out in the museum of modern art Paris. You felt like you were in the room watching the performance.“ - Dances with Films LA 2025

I like the idea that the choreographer Emanuele Soavi uses human bodies in his dance performances to resist the physical dissolution of our human existence in times of AI and I wanted to transform this performance into a cinematic journey.

Hansjörg Thurn

What if …

At the beginning of the 21st century, a professor at Oxford University calculates that there is a 50-50 probability that we humans are just a simulation. Nothing more than an idea conceived by a computer of the future. Nothing more than figures programmed to imagine their own consciousness. Our bodies, nothing more than vibrations in a digital cloud ...

What if there was a place where thoughts were wild and unbridled. Where the energy of inspiration could roam freely. Where ideas combine like droplets of water to form a cloud and become visible. A cloud in which dreams, stories and secrets meet. Flirting with each other and falling in love. When they give birth to happiness and passion, or longing. When the cloud is filled to the brim with a big, broad smile.

What if the child encounters this cloud on its way through the world, fascinated by the broad smile, all the happiness, the many dreams and stories in it. And when the child then realizes that it is standing in front of a mirror...