8/8/PORTAL

Born during the BaseCamp residency at Locarno 2024, this piece explores interactive projection as an expanded cinematic threshold.

Inspired by the Lionsgate Portal, a moment of cosmic alignment and energetic opening of the leo season, the work synchronizes filmic and real time through videomapping, transforming the screen into a pulsating, vibratory field.

By merging the rhythms of moving images
with the immediacy of live performance, the piece dissolves the boundary between
spectator and film. A sensor activates the audience’s intervention, generating an infinite visual loop that disintegrates and recomposes with each interaction. Time becomes fluid, and the cinematic experience unfolds as a ritual of collective presence and transformation.

Following the principles of the Manifesto of Cybernetics, a symbiotic integration between the human and the technological is proposed. The interaction between audience and technology transforms the artistic experience, where the work becomes a dynamic process of feedback.
Perception ceases to be a fixed entity and is immersed in a flow of information that reconfigures reality in real time envisioning future possible narratives.

WIP that was developed during the Basecamp residency in Locarno Film Festival in 2024.