Beautiful Storm

Beautiful Storm is a collection of weather and climate imagery, filmed and photographed over many years. The musical score also created by the film maker, brings together a choreography of movement, drama and emotion, taking the viewer on a mesmerising cinematic journey, into the heart of the storm.

Beautiful Storm is loosely based on the coffee table book of the same name, that Yanni published in 2020 that features 30 years of storm chasing photography taken around the coastline of Victoria Australia.

However the film didn’t start that way. Yanni created the film to go with a piece of music he wrote and recorded under his pseudonym 'Bluzoid'.

The music came from a volunteer commission he was given to create music for a dance based short film. The makers rejected this piece going with someone else’s but that didn’t stop him from fleshing out the original piano score into something more orchestral. Yanni is grateful to his musician friends Natalie Parker (tin whistle, flute and trumpet) and Sally Carter (violin) for their contribution in recording some of the melodies.

The music sat on the shelf for a few years as it had no connection to anything and Yanni didn’t know how to release it. Eventually he decided to create a film to go with it, incorporating his thirty years of storm photography and moving footage that he shot over a period of ten years.

Everything seemed to come together – the music, the film - all that symbolized Yanni's passion for storm chasing and our ever changing and extreme weather events as a result of climate change.

It’s not a traditional narrative film with actors or characters or dialogue, but more like an instrumental music video, however it follows the three act story arc.