The installation stems from a fascination with early cinema, and draws elements directly from George Meliès's A Trip to the Moon, the first narrative film in history.

The piece is originally a 7min video (documentation video shortened to 3min) that has a beginning and end, and displayed on loop. It brings the moving image off the flat wall, out of the frame, spilling onto the floor and objects as a life-size video collage. This combination of objects and video makes it simultaneously sculptural and temporal, tactile and ephemeral.

The video content is a mixture of live action video and animation, and shedding light on its own process of creation through the handmade/hand- drawn elements. Using techniques uniquely available to projection mapping, the piece offers a world that recalls the past and future at the same time, immersing the viewer into a magic-realist dream.

Exhibitions

Arteles, Finland
Les Dominicains de Haute Alsace, France
Voyager, Chicago USA
CICA Museum, South Korea

Process

The project was conceived and created at Arteles artist residency in Finland. Once the research into early cinema launched my interest, the process was an intuitive, spontaneous one. It was made like a collage, with elements added and taken away freely. I built the video in After Effects, creating a full 7min-loop. The later editions exhibited at other locations were reinstalled using the same video content, but mapped with Resolume and MadMapper. Each edition was slightly different in terms of objects used, but the timeline, video, and audio all remained the same.