The dancers can fully control the speed of the film projectors and manipulate a sound environment through the movement of their hands and neck. This means that they can slow down a film projection and pause it on an image. In order to be able to do this, the motors and in the Elmo 16mm projectors were replaced, as well as the bulb with a super bright LEDs as to keep the film from melting when played slowly or stopped. The interactive system uses Arduino and Xbee communication.

Julie and Zahra backstage - Photo by Tempo festival

The system in development

Experimentation during a development workshop