Green Hippo

Collegium Hungaricum Berlin

Collegium Hungaricum Berlin

After last year’s success at the Collegium Hungaricum Berlin, Farkas Fülöp and the Hungarian visual collective Kiég? Izzók decided to repeat their multi-screen video installation ‘CineBox’ under the umbrella of the Cinema Total 3 – European Edition during the 60^th Berlinale earlier this year.

Cinema Total provides a networking platform for filmmakers and producers with this year’s edition concentrating on Hungarian, Romanian and Slovakian projects. Kiég? Izzók’s visual spectacle opened the programme and was to be seen at the CHB every evening from 13-17^th February 2010.

With the very angular shape of the building and the three windows in the south-facing façade, the CHB was perfect for being turned into one big box, the windows looking in and the outside walls serving as projection dividers.

Kiég? Izzók treated the front of the building as a single undivided canvas to create jaw-dropping 3D panoramic projections in the windows, with the content running over all three windows either sequentially or inter-connected.

Using a Hippotizer Stage V3 and a Hippotizer HD V2 to feed four Christie RoadRunner projectors they ran a single timeline over both Hippotizers which were connected via Ethernet. One Hippotizer ran two 10K AnsiLumen projectors facing the ground floor window, while the second Hippotizer fed a 10K AnsiLumen projector for the smaller middle window as well as a 15K AnsiLumen projector creating the display in the larger window of the 3^rd floor Panorama Hall.

The 4K resolution video content was fully created and provided by Kiég? Izzók, who shot their footage, created the animation and also designed the physical installation from pre-designed storyboards. The artwork was edited in post-production software and masks, fitting the architecture of the building, were used to render the frames for the three windows.

Creating a single timeline with all the editing done at post-production/video stage Farkas did not need to edit the content any further within the Hippotizer timeline.

Kiég? Izzók’s premise for the project was to ‘submerge themselves in a big bowl of cinematic adventure’ and with visually stunning content they managed to create truly illusory 3D projections on the two-dimensional building front.