Colourful Skies, Burnt Lands

Colourful Skies, Burnt Lands by Maxime Corbeil-Perron is an audiovisual performance for three analog film projectors, played live. The movement of colours is tightly connected to sampled and synthetic sonic components. The performance generates landscapes of blazing colour, oscillating between abstraction and analog artefacts, underpinned by mechanical, syncopated rhythms.

This is achieved through precise real-time editing using a custom-made light-control system. The modulated light of three analog film projectors is interrupted with speed and precision by hand-built obturators, electronics, and software.

The projected images have gone through an array of transformations: beginning on Super 8 film, then transferred into a digital image, converted back into analog video, digitized once more, and finally printed onto 16 mm film. This layered circulation between photochemical, analog, and digital formats became an essential part of the work, allowing the image to carry “paleontological” traces of each transformation.

The work seeks to create allegories around the accelerating race towards technological progress, its impact on the environment, and our relationship with technology and its inevitable obsolescence.

Concept, direction, fabrication, composition: Maxime Corbeil-Perron
Advice, fabrication: Martin Châteauvert, Pierre Gaudet
Produced by Werktank (Leuven, Belgium) and Recto-Verso (Québec, Canada)
With support from the Flemish Government, Recto-Verso, and the CALQ

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Developed collaboratively by Morpho and Out of Sight, Cinema Sessions unfolds as a series of expanded film screenings and cinematic events hosted at Out of Sight. The programme is shaped by both organisations: Morpho through its residency programme, and Out of Sight through its Public Programme in collaboration with participating artists and since 2026 in dialogue with the Study Circle Antwerp*. Together, they create a space where moving image intersects with artistic research, collective reflection, and shared experience.

*Study Circle Antwerp is a collective body that is being formed throughout the On Mobilisation. Towards Multivocal Collective Futures project (2026-2029), co-funded by the European Union.