Festival di Fez
A Baroque Vision in Motion
In the heart of Fez, light and sound transformed a historic wall into a living canvas.
Imaginarium Studio reimagined Monteverdi’s sacred music through a site-specific videomapping performance that merged Italian heritage with Moroccan soul.
For the Fez Festival, Imaginarium Studio designed and delivered a site-specific videomapping performance that transformed a monumental wall in the Medina into a vibrant, living canvas.
The visual work accompanied a live performance of Claudio Monteverdi’s Vespro della Beata Vergine, creating a bridge between the Italian Baroque tradition and the spiritual depth of Moroccan culture.
The project was conceived as a fully immersive, multidimensional experience, where music, light, and movement interacted seamlessly with the historical architecture.
The projected visuals were the result of a meticulous process of artistic research and reworking: paintings, architectural details, and frescoes from Cremona were photographed, digitized, and transformed into animated material.
These elements were blended with reworked photographs, sacred textures, Islamic geometric patterns, and symbolic imagery, woven together into a visual narrative that unfolded in harmony with sound and space.
The animations and visuals were created using a workflow based on Blender for 3D modeling and animation, DaVinci Resolve for editing and compositing, Resolume for live playback, and Wire for real-time content generation and manipulation.
This setup allowed us to create a responsive visual direction, capable of breathing with the music and evolving in real time alongside the live orchestral performance.
The mapping was carefully calibrated to the morphology of the façade and managed entirely in real time to maintain perfect alignment throughout the show.
The performance featured the Orchestra of Cremona and the Orchestre Arabo-Andalou de Fès, conducted by Antonio Greco and Mohammed Briouel, respectively.
It was made possible through the collaboration of the Italian Cultural Institute of Rabat, the Italian Embassy in Morocco, and the Teatro Ponchielli of Cremona, represented in Fez by Superintendent Andrea Cigni.
Through this project, Imaginarium Studio aimed not only to create a visual show, but to offer a shared emotional and cultural journey — where time, tradition, and technology meet under the stars, through art and light.