Friday 10th and Saturday 11th of April 2026
9 pm > 1 am – Loop screening
Duration: approx. 25 min
La Voix du Nord
Grand’Place
59000 Lille
Free
Monument video mapping – 6 contestants
• Shadi Jafarabadi (Germany, Iran)
• Kubakub (Austria)
• Raphaëlle Martinez (France)
• MØJØ Studio (Portugal)
• John Tettenborn & Kourtney Lara Ross (Germany)
• The Fox, The Folks (Indonesia)
The Video Mapping Festival offers a Video Mapping Contest as part of the Lille tour. This year, the 6 selected candidates will present their work on La Voix du Nord facade; a Jury made of professionals will award a Grand Prize, possibly an honorable mention, and the public will choose an Audience Prize by SMS vote (Friday only).
In addition to the 4 000€ grant for the creation, each winner (Grand Prize and Audience Prize) will receive a second financial prize to propose a creation, one for the next edition of iMapp Bucharest (monetary prize offered by iMapp Bucharest), the other for the Lyon Festival of Lights (monetary prize of 4 000€ offered by Christie and ADC Production).
More info to come.
Jury
Pre-selection Jury:
• Julian Hölscher – artist, studio julian hölscher (Germany)
• Antoine Manier – director, Rencontres Audiovisuelles (France)
• Lorenz Potthast – co-founder, Xenorama (Germany)
• Carole Purnelle – CEO, OCUBO (Portugal)
• Martina Stella – artist and researcher (Italy, France)
Jury:
• Chanpen Koolkaew – director and founder, Decidekit (Thailand)
• Julien Pavillard – director of events and animation, general coordinator of the Lyon Festival of Lights, City of Lyon (France)
• Svitlana Reinish – media artist, artistic director and stage designer (Ukraine)
• Tamás Vaspöri – CEO, Maxin10sity (Hungary)
• Irma Vilà i Òdena – curator (Spain)
