Fire of Love
Description
A couple’s passion for one another is inextricably bound with the explosive geology that is their life’s work in Sara Dosa’s (The Seer and the Unseen, Festival 2019) stunning documentary portrait of French volcanologists Katia and Maurice Krafft. After meeting in the late 1960s, the pair embarked on a nonstop expedition to the sites of violent eruptions and the very edges of active volcanoes. Given access to the Kraffts’ rich archive of video, photographs, and recordings, along with news footage and their television appearances, Dosa has crafted an almost tactile recreation of the duo’s perilous explorations. Narrated by Miranda July, this gorgeous film and its vivid images of scarlet lava flows is a moving testament of devotion to love and science.
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Biographies
Berkeley filmmaker Sara Dosa’s directing debut, The Last Season, world premiered at the 2014 SFFILM Festival, where it captured the Best Bay Area Documentary Feature Golden Gate Award. It went on to receive a Truer Than Fiction Film Independent Spirit Award nomination. Her second feature, The Seer and the Unseen, debuted at the 2019 Festival, where Dosa won a second Bay Area Documentary Feature Golden Gate Award. With Barbara Kopple, she directed the made-for-television documentary ReMastered: Tricky Dick and the Man in Black (2018).