Shot during a series of international war game exercises in the Pacific, Swarm is a montage of the skyward component of these rehearsals. Swarm is a moving image piece about aerial rehearsal and how very slowly the sky becomes crowded with the technology of conflict, until the crescendo is reached and we are once more left with silence. Swarm is an aerial ballet but where beauty is replaced by a harbinger of destruction.
The images and footage were shot in Sydney and other coastal locations in New South Wales between 2012 and 2016. This edit is from 2017.