Tuesday 5th and Wednesday 6th of October 2021
Arenberg Creative Mine, Wallers-Arenberg
Every year, the Video Mapping Festival offers a video mapping competition to reward the best productions of the year.
Due to health situation, only a few mapping could have take place in 2020. Therefore, the Video Mapping Festival invited the public to discover the 2019 selection, which could not be screened in March 2020. It was presented to the public in the form of video recordings on Tuesday 5th and Wednesday 6th of October at Arenberg Creative Mine.
A Jury composed of mapping professionals awarded the prizes on the evening of Wednesday 6th of October.
Jury:
Nika PERNE – curator and producer (Slovenia)
Nathanaëlle PICOT – video designer, artistic director, Pixel n’Pepper (France)
Ronald RAMAKERS – director and curator, Glow Festival Eindhoven (The Netherlands)
Romain TAMAYO – project manager, Fête des Lumières (France)
Great Prize:
Le Sacre du Tympan
Yann Nguema / France / 2019 / Monument mapping / 8 min 30
Showing: La Rochelle City Hall, France – 6th of December 2019 (Inauguration of the City Hall)
This project relies on the 6 years it took to renovate the building, a time during which it was hidden behind scaffolding. The building of a new imaginary portail in its center is used as a guiding thread through the project. A dozen of paintings follow one another, marked by strong references to marine iconography and natural elements.
Jury’s favourites:
GENESIS
THÉORIZ / France / 2019 / Monument mapping / 8 min
Showing: Saint-Jean Cathedral, Lyon, France – 5th > 8th of December 2019 (Lyon Festival of Lights)
With GENESIS, THÉORIZ offers to gather around an artistic work evoking the birth of the world. Through innovative techniques of generative algorithms, the origin of our universe is told in a poetic way, from the creation of the stars to the emergence of life. GENESIS invites us to take a step back from our own existence.
Coexistence
Limelight / Hungary / 2019 / Monument mapping / 9 min 01
Showing: The Concourse, Chatswood, Australia – 24th of May > 16th of June 2019 (Vivid Sydney Chatswood)
Inspired by the cultural diversity of Chatswood and Australia, Coexistence explores the relations between the individual and the community from different angles. The piece is divided into different acts similar to a theatre play, each of them presents a different scenario of the basic situation of an individual meeting a community.
TECHTONIC³
ruestungsschmie.de / Germany / 2019 / Monument mapping / 2 min 55
Showing: Sts. Peter and Paul’s Cathedral Basilica, Pécs, Hungary – 27th > 30th of June 2019 (Zsolnay Light Festival)
10 quotes of Pope Francis regarding climate change as a speed-reading message to underline the importance of our behaviour marries a site-specific architectural sensitive audiovisual tornado.
