Colourful Skies, Burnt Lands

Harnessing angular real-time editing from a custom-made light control system, the modulated lights of three analog film projectors are interrupted with speed and precision, using hand-built obturators, electronics, and software.

The projected images have gone through an array of transformations: beginning on Super 8 film, then transferred into digital image, converted back into analog video, digitized once more, and finally printed onto 16mm 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.

An audiovisual composition, the movement of light in space is tightly connected to sampled and synthetic sonic component. Landscapes of blazing colours, oscillating between abstraction and analog artifacts, underpinned by mechanical, syncopated rhythms.

A work that seeks to create allegories regarding the accelerating race toward 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.