RISING Immerses Audiences with Panasonic Projection

Jon Willis: “Euphoria, is a quite extraordinary work that’s only ever been staged in three other locations in the world. It’s a truly immersive film experience. A continuous film runs for one hour, 55 minutes with three specific elements: At ground level are choir screens (the Brooklyn Youth Choir shown in life size), where 18 projectors are stitched together with very short throw lenses. Above the choir are five drummers on large screens that surround the audience; and, finally, the 14m-wide major screen displaying the primary film that tells a story of capitalism. All of the media is projected onto specialised high-gain surfaces that provide an exceptionally faithful colour representation – the Panasonic projectors excel in this regard, the fidelity of the colour is really, really terrific. All of the media is locked together with timecode and all stitched together to produce an immersive experience.

“The artist Julian Rosefeldt attended the premiere along with his team and they were incredibly complimentary about this particular setup, indicating it was the smoothest and best result they’d seen thus far. That’s a very pleasing testimonial for Rising, for CVP and for Panasonic projection. CVP has been very proud to play our small part in bringing this significant work to life here in Melbourne.”

Jon Willis: “Anthem is a what you might describe as a deceptively simple work. It’s a large-scale sound and video collaboration between artist Wu Tsang and folk icon Beverly Glenn-Copeland. It relies on its setting inside the cathedral to envelope the audience is magnificent natural reverb. From a visual perspective, two edge-blended Panasonic 20,000-lumen laser projectors point at a huge white drape (18m high by 6m wide). Originally we thought we would need three projectors to pull this off, but the 2 x Panasonic PT-RZ24K projectors proved to be more than sufficient.  Anthem is a powerful work made more powerful by the dramatic setting and cavernous acoustics.”