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GLOW: A Cinematic Moodscape

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Six kinds of light, and what each one does to a story.

Brief

The Academy Museum wanted visitors to feel how light and color shape cinema, not just read about it.

Build

We led experience design and media production for a two-story installation: one synchronized journey through sunrise, moonlight, neon, candlelight, fireworks and campfire, using projection, lighting and sound.

Result

Visitors stand inside the moods filmmakers have relied on for a century.

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Executive Creative Direction

Design

Lead Production

Studio Operations Lead

Floor Projection / Motion

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Audio Visual / Electrosonic

Scenic / Centerline Scenery

Lighting Design / Available Light

Lighting Install / Kinetic

David Petsch

Niklas Fissel

João Pestana

Isabella Mendes

Lilli Karkowski

Eugen Bräunig

Sara Fidelis

João Pestana

Alana Tiernan

Christopher Jungo

Josh Cottrell

Erika McChesney

Luke Thompson

Andrey Chernyshov

Flash Fell

Samuel Stuckey

James von Dielingen

Frank Damico

Chris Geysbeek

Alyssa Hill

Kate Furst

Steven Rosen

Matt Zelkowitz

Jonathan Lebovic

Laura Green

Kate DeWall

Miles Karraa

Kenny Cole

GLOW: A Cinematic Moodscape is a two-story immersive installation at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures exploring how light and color shape cinema. XMACHINA led the experience design and media production, creating a synchronized journey through six cinematic themes, including sunrise, moonlight, neon, candlelight, fireworks, and campfire, using projection, lighting, and sound.

All photography shown is courtesy of and owned by the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures.