Lava flows where my volcanologists goes in Sara Dosa’s loved up lava story, FIRE OF LOVE.

Intrepid French scientists, chemistry physicist, Katia Kraft and Maurice Krafft, a geologist, devoted their lives to uncovering the mystery of volcanoes, chasing fire around the world and in the process capturing some of the most spectacular imagery of the earth ever recorded.

From Stromboli and Etna to the molten marvels of Hawaii, Japan and Indonesia, Katia and Maurice Kraft forged a magnanimous study of magma while cementing their passion for each other.

Told through the lenses of this magnetic couple whose photographic record of their work is phenomenal, FIRE OF LOVE is a visual romance that takes place on both an intimate and awesome scale, exploring how their shared passion enabled pioneering research in the 1970s and 80s that helped save lives, but ultimately ended their own.

Directed by Sara Dosa and narrated by Miranda July, this lyrical archival collage pulls from hundreds of hours of rare and never-before-seen footage and photographs shot by the Kraffts, of the stunningly beautiful but relatively benign red lava flow, to the more deadly, noxious grey.

Katia and Maurice were playing with fire, he more so with scatterbrain schemes of kayaking down a molten river, and their demise was always a factored risk. In FIRE OF LOVE, that playfulness and pragmatism comes through, channelling the humour, affection, and insatiable curiosity that was integral to their partnership and which left behind a legacy that has forever enriched our understanding of the internal, infernal combustible workings of the Earth.

Like Cousteau’s popularising of the undersea world, the Krafts were supreme in capturing the drama of geology, the eruptions and upheaval, the beauty and destruction, the majesty and creation, the awesome power of our planet.

You can check out the trailer here.