XL's project manager Paul Wood comments: "This is the first time XL has been involved with this event. It was great to be involved with creative projects such as this, and it's good to see artists incorporating and experimenting with video in inventive ways."
Staged at The Queen's House next to Greenwich Maritime Museum, Runtold the history of running, with the help of dancing, choreography, music and HD video.
XL supplied four Barco FLM HDR18 projectors, two Doremi HD video hard drives and a ScreenPro 2 HD switcher for this 30- minute show, featuring specially commissioned HD video content produced by Gary Vernon from film producers Film38. XL Video's Projectionist was Paul Barry.
The projectors were positioned 75m from the front of the Queen's House, and were overlaid to produce one very bright image measuring 35m wide by 12m high, providing a dramatic backdrop for the performance.
For Time Is Like Water Flowing at the London Piazza at the O2 Arena, Chinese landscape painting was brought to life by French vertical theatre company Les Passagers directed by Philippe Riou. They combined the excitement and anticipation of aerial performance, martial arts and multi-media effects in this highly visual work.
Les Passagers performed on bungee ropes suspended in front of a 12m high by 14m wide canvas structure that was painted daily for the four show days. A fifth of the width of the canvas was clear vinyl, and behind that XL rigged a 12m high by 2.8m wide Stealth LED screen, showing custom animations produced by Beijing-based new media duo 8gg, running together with the performance.
Original music was created by Liz Chi Yen Liew and Tom E Morrison, and XL Video's Technician was Rob Smith.
(Jim Evans)
