The disaster on display here is not a tornado, but a fire, or to be more specific: The icy shell that formed around a Chicago building as firefighters fought the blaze.
Ivan Villafuerte, director: "I began filming late last fall, shooting throughout the winter all over the city. I initially set out to explore neglected areas of the city that. But, as time went on and I filmed for weeks on end, I struggled to capture the theme I had in mind and decided to reset and start over. Soon after, a large fire erupted in a vacant warehouse not far from where I live. For two days, I filmed the action, as firefighters battled to control the fire that in the process created a thick layer of ice over the brick facade of the building, from as many angles as I could access before being told to leave. The scene was, apart from impressive, somewhat melancholic as here was one building of many in a row of long vacant, anonymous, and undisturbed relics of an economically buoyant era and there it was naked and exposed in the throws of utter destruction by both fire and ice in the dead of winter. It instantly became the centerpiece of the video."
