Le Cinématon is an interactive audiovisual installation, with video-mapping on the facade of a building. The public is invited to come along and record short sequences on the Cinematon arcade booth, using a video-matting technique (a neural-network algorithm version of the cinema’s green screen).
These sequences are then replayed in the building’s windows, whose shutters open and close virtually on a range of picturesque settings: the alien planet of a sci-fi movie, an underwater backdrop, a western saloon, a disco club, or with typical cinematic effects : stop-motion, reversed shots, etc.
Behind each of the building’s windows plays a different version of Scott Joplin’s famous “Maple Leaf Rag”. This gives rise to unpredictable musical collisions as the shutters open randomly, paying an odd and heartfelt tribute to the master of rag time.

Direction & programming : Vincent Goudard
Production : AIAGOS – www.aiagos.com
Commission : Nuit Blanche / Mairie de Paris, Mairie de Cachan.

Credits
Main music theme: Scott Joplin’s “Maple Leaf Rag” (1899); Aaron Jonah Lewis : Maple Leaf Rag (Banjo version); Some sounds excerpts from freesound.org: AlienXXX, LukaCafuka, ohrpilot, Nimlos, Pfannkuchn, klankbeeld.

The Cinematon was premiered during the Grand Paris’ “Nuit Blanche” festival, at the Maison Raspail in Cachan, on 7th June 2025.

Duration 45min (adaptable)

Technical rider on demand.

Previous dates :
. 2025 : Festival Nuit Blanche / Paris,  Parc Raspail de Cachan (94)