• Painted sets created by the Bordeaux company Limelight will be screened until January 2 on the facade of the Grand Théâtre.

  • The illustrations are hand painted on layers and projected by an analog rather than digital technique, known as the magic lantern.

From 5 p.m., Saturday evening, the Grand Théâtre will be dressed in light.

Until Christmas, a hand-painted plant decoration will be projected "in the old fashioned way" on the building classified as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, then a second, still under development, will take over until Christmas. January 2.

The city turned to the Bordeaux company Limelight, specializing in live performance and audiovisual techniques, to adorn one of its most beautiful buildings for the holidays.

Hand painted images

It is in the creation studio of Limelight, a company founded in 1983 by Nicole Sénédiak, a lighting designer by profession, that the “very naturalistic” decor was born, in a nod to the environmentalist majority. "A survey of the facade is carried out on a layer of 18

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18 cm, size of the final image, integrating lens aberrations and parallax errors," she explains. It was also designed by the Limelight teams based on the architecture of the facade designed by Victor Louis.

The projection is inspired by the very original technique of the magic lantern.

“It was invented by Huyguens in the 17th century,” explains Nicole Sénédiak.

At that time, we painted images behind which we put candles to project them with an optical system.

She also explains that the painted images Pani (named after the Austrian brand) were used a lot to project part of the sets in cinema and opera.

“It's funny, these sets that were inside the Grand Théâtre will be found outside,” she laughs.

"Analog technology in the digital age"

No digital projectors for this giant mapping but a magic lantern, a sort of large slide device, which will be positioned on a balcony of the Grand Théâtre. a lamp, comments the lighting designer.

It is an analog technique in the digital age.

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She is still one of the few in France to practice this technique of the painted image to carry out these mapping.

“We have an extraordinary rendering, very powerful, she puts forward with passion.

The image is less clean than digital, we can see the brushstrokes but it is extremely poetic.

»The HMI lamp, used a lot in cinema, and loved by Limelight, is closer to daylight and provides better rendering.

Limelight is both a creation studio and a service provider which has already worked for numerous events in Bordeaux, with projections of Pani images for a Vinexpo since 1985. Since 2000, high-power video projectors have enabled it to make mappings of scope.

With its robust machines which "can stay outside, are durable and easy to use", emphasizes Nicole Sénédiak, and the extra soul of its artisanal creations, Limelight has not finished taking the light.

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