Title : Ephemeral Realms
Artist : SNAPLIGHT
Sound Design : Rock Lee, Lynne Jiang
Location : Palace of Fine Arts
City / Country : Lille, France
Production background : Production as a part of Video Mapping Contest 2025
Production : Rencontres Audiovisuelles
Production year : 2025
Screening dates : 4th and 5th of April 2025
Type : Monument mapping / Outdoor / Frontal / Linear / Ephemeral


Video mapping made for the Video Mapping Contest 2025 organised by Rencontres Audiovisuelles as part of the Video Mapping Festival #8.

▶︎ Ephemeral Realms
Ephemeral Realms is a 3D mapping projection that transforms architecture through blue smoke, metallic lines, and vibrant lights, depicting a journey from mystery to futurism, from brilliance to fragility. The five chapters explore the fleeting beauty and the cycle of creation and destruction.

Direction and animation: SNAPLIGHT
Original music: Rock Lee, Lynne Jiang

Pre-selection Jury:
• Marko Bolković – director, Visualia Festival of Light (Croatia)
• Antoine Manier – director, Rencontres Audiovisuelles (France)
• Filip Roca – artist (Montenegro, Spain)
• Daniel Rossa – new media artist, Studio Rossa (Germany)
• Martina Stella – artist and researcher (Italy, France)

Jury:
• Ross Ashton – creative director, The Projection Studio (United Kingdom)
• Kristin McGuire – artist, Studio McGuire (United Kingdom)
• Tamás Vaspöri – CEO, Maxin10sity (Hungary)
 

Video mapping tour organised by Rencontres Audiovisuelles.
With the support of the Hauts-de-France Region, DRAC Hauts-de-France, Métropole Européenne de Lille, the City of Lille and Crédit Mutuel Nord Europe.