Fire of Love

00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:06,520 Katia and Maurice have their differences. 144 00:33:09,600 --> 00:33:11,440 Katia is like a bird. 145 00:33:14,800 --> 00:33:17,480 Maurice, an elephant seal. 146 00:33:24,440 --> 00:33:28,840 Katia is drawn to details, the interconnectedness of things. 147 00:33:34,480 --> 00:33:38,080 Maurice, the singular, the grandiose. 148 00:33:42,520 --> 00:33:47,160 They both observe the world, but in their own distinct ways. 149 00:33:51,120 --> 00:33:56,040 Katia, with her still camera, captures one moment with one frame. 150 00:34:02,200 --> 00:34:04,120 Maurice chases motion... 151 00:34:05,080 --> 00:34:08,640 recording a stream of seconds, 24 frames each. 152 00:34:10,360 --> 00:34:16,560 He thirsts to get every possible shot, because the spectacle could vanish. 153 00:34:18,600 --> 00:34:20,760 But this causes him to wander... 154 00:34:22,560 --> 00:34:23,720 and wander... 155 00:34:26,360 --> 00:34:27,520 and wander. 156 00:34:31,120 --> 00:34:34,000 Katia's greatest fear is that she will lose sight of him... 157 00:34:35,200 --> 00:34:36,840 and never see him again. 158 00:35:13,120 --> 00:35:15,440 A surprise telegram summons Katia... 159 00:35:15,560 --> 00:35:16,920 and Maurice to Nyiragongo, 160 00:35:17,560 --> 00:35:20,160 their beloved volcano that they met four years ago. 161 00:36:20,200 --> 00:36:21,863 Katia and Maurice knew 162 00:36:21,887 --> 00:36:23,800 this kind of destruction was possible. 163 00:36:24,240 --> 00:36:27,680 But this is the first time they experience it firsthand. 164 00:36:35,440 --> 00:36:38,400 The lava flows were going very... very fast. 165 00:36:38,800 --> 00:36:43,840 They were probably running at 60 to 70 kilometers per hour. 166 00:36:45,240 --> 00:36:49,320 And this was in the morning where a lot of people were on the road 167 00:36:49,600 --> 00:36:50,920 going for the market. 168 00:36:51,400 --> 00:36:56,400 We think that around 100 people were overwhelmed by the lava flow. 169 00:36:57,480 --> 00:36:59,000 Very unusual eruption. 170 00:37:30,080 --> 00:37:32,136 No amount of scientific research 171 00:37:32,160 --> 00:37:34,240 could have prepared them for this shock. 172 00:37:35,960 --> 00:37:38,720 The language of myth instead feels apt. 173 00:37:41,280 --> 00:37:43,120 They're in the cauldron of the devil, 174 00:37:43,840 --> 00:37:44,960 the portal to hell. 175 00:37:46,800 --> 00:37:50,320 Or caught amid the warring spirits of the volcano, 176 00:37:50,720 --> 00:37:53,560 according to the stories from their friends in Goma. 177 00:39:53,440 --> 00:39:55,200 For Katia and Maurice, 178 00:39:55,440 --> 00:39:58,080 the unknown is not something to be feared. 179 00:39:58,760 --> 00:40:00,600 It is something to go toward. 180 00:41:12,240 --> 00:41:14,120 At only 52 years old 181 00:41:14,360 --> 00:41:17,880 an infant Indonesian volcano begins to throw a fit. 182 00:41:18,880 --> 00:41:20,880 Katia and Maurice go chase it. 183 00:41:24,320 --> 00:41:29,320 In 1883, its parent, a volcano named Krakatau, exploded. 184 00:41:30,760 --> 00:41:33,200 It conjured a tsunami so forceful that it swept 185 00:41:33,680 --> 00:41:38,480 neighboring coastlines, killing 36,417 people. 186 00:41:42,160 --> 00:41:44,720 It also ripped up this coral from the seafloor 187 00:41:45,080 --> 00:41:48,760 and parked a colonial Dutch steamship two miles inland. 188 00:41:49,760 --> 00:41:54,000 Ash traveled the globe, intensifying sunsets that transfixed 189 00:41:54,120 --> 00:41:58,520 the gaze of scientists and artists, especially one Norwegian painter 190 00:41:58,600 --> 00:42:01,280 who described the sunsets as a scream. 191 00:42:05,120 --> 00:42:07,760 Then the volcano collapsed into the sea... 192 00:42:09,320 --> 00:42:14,080 only to spring up again as a newcomer called Anak Krakatau. 193 00:44:53,240 --> 00:44:56,160 Katia and Maurice must be totally in sync. 194 00:44:56,840 --> 00:45:00,520 Any mistake that one makes can be costly for the both of them. 195 00:45:02,200 --> 00:45:04,920 But Maurice cannot do this work without Katia. 196 00:45:05,600 --> 00:45:08,080 Neither can Katia, without Maurice. 197 00:45:09,680 --> 00:45:12,760 And together, they're there for the volcano, 198 00:45:13,320 --> 00:45:16,280 who is indifferent in the face of their adulation. 199 00:46:33,360 --> 00:46:34,973 Katia and Maurice know 200 00:46:34,997 --> 00:46:37,120 that these rocks will long outlive them. 201 00:46:42,680 --> 00:46:44,160 They are not religious. 202 00:46:45,360 --> 00:46:47,120 "We are scientists," they say. 203 00:46:48,120 --> 00:46:52,520 "We have but this one short life, then we return to the ground." 204 00:47:07,680 --> 00:47:11,440 With her one short life, Katia dreams of growing old 205 00:47:11,520 --> 00:4