AltVerda - Core Festival

Show control / Content production

2022, CORE festival, Belgium

CORE Festival is a Brussel-based festival that wants to awaken all senses with an experience where nature, music and art meet.

Creative process
An otherworldly design, located in a green amphitheater—this was a dream come true. The client went above and beyond to install a significant amount of LED pillars covered in one-way mirrors. This made the LED lights visible through the mirror while it was brightly lit, and saw the mirrors reflect the outside world when the LED went dark. The client wanted to give the stage an artistic and natural look, using primarily organic materials—right up my alley. I created a lot of custom materials with reflections and macro set-ups using a wide variety of materials—including iridescent materials, glass, tree leaves, ink, paints and other fluids. Combining the filmed reflections with the mirror’s reflections created a marvellous and dreamy final result. The concept design title I kept in the back of my mind during the process was “through the looking glass”.