Jerusalem Film Festival Mapping
Video mapping on Jerusalem’s Old City walls for the Film Festival opening.
Turn the Old City walls into the opening-night canvas for the Jerusalem Film Festival.
Made Six scenes across a hundred metres of stone.
- Starting point The textured stonework at King David Gate, modelled in 3D.
- The craft Fit six scenes to the wall model and synchronise four 4K laser projectors.
- In the world One continuous moving image across the walls, without attaching lighting to the monument.
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Commissioned by the Jerusalem Cinematheque for the festival's opening and projected onto the Old City walls at King David Gate, across close to a hundred metres of stone.
The wall was modelled in 3D first, stone by stone, because the projection had to sit on real texture rather than a flat approximation of it. Six scenes were built against that model and driven by four 4K laser projectors, synchronised so the span read as one image rather than four.
The site is a protected monument, which ruled out rigging conventional lighting on the stonework. Projection was the way to light it without touching it.