Recalling the early experiences of light shows, Ex-Machina manifests itself as a light projection and shadows plays ‘carried’. Seven 16mm projectors, five microphones and mobiles are the different instruments used by the five protagonists of this performance of non-figurative images. The initial idea of this project is to use the film medium by reducing it to its basic active ingredients: light and shadow through spotlight manipulation as sources of pure light. The mobile devices, placed between the projection and the screen and powered by engines or manipulated by the protagonists of the performance, replace the printed film surface. The beams of 16mm projectors distributed on either sides of the screen diffuse a discontinuous light by colour discs in rotation and filters. They are transformed by passing through various mobile devices. These are caches that sculpt the light cones, thus creating new patterns, shadows and spots that appear at the rate of gyrations.
All these elements combine its own effects of transparency and opacity to produce a dramatization of the light. The screen is no longer the neutral surface, smooth and opaque that opens the world of representation, it turns into an energy reserve, pointing directly into the room its hypnotic effects. Ex-Machina follows a partition that orchestrate extensive movement and intensive speed. It simultaneously creates its own acoustic universe through the sounds produced by the different parts which compose it (lights, motors, optical soundtracks...). Captured by microphones and then treated and redistributed in live, the resulting soundtrack accompanies in a controlled synchronism the alternation of shadows and light.
The audio-visual machine moves, accelerates, and ends up to exaggerate and self-destruct in a final explosion. The screen reached in all its dimensions seems to go beyond the limits of its edge and incorporate the body of the viewer. The performance ends with an endless coda where only remains the chaos preceding the shadow of a screen rotating on itself accompanied by a unique repeated sound.