Charles Atlas’ five-channel video installation, Tornado Warning, draws from the filmmaker’s early memories of the tornado alerts in his childhood town of St Louis, Missouri. The piece contrasts an orderly space of grids and numbers with a chaotic environment of found images cut from old films, news footage, and the Internet. Ordinary objects fly around an empty room, swirling abstractions dominate the walls, and distorted bodies dance over images of radio waves. Seemingly in motion, the space of Tornado Warning appears unruly, alarming, violent and relentless.
Charles Atlas
Director
The Little Whirlwind65%
The Twisters58%
Tornado Valley63%
The Twister: Caught in the Storm67%
The Band Concert71%
The Good Dinosaur67%
Willy's Wonderland59%
Extinction60%
Into the Storm60%
Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story69%
Places in the Heart71%
Westworld67%
The Pagemaster64%
Plankton: The Movie67%
Home on the Range60%
Meet the Robinsons69%
Twisters67%
Arctic Dogs59%
Twister65%
Crawl63%
