TWO SCREENS, ONE QUESTION
The Installation
Mirage invites visitors into a room where two screens face each other in an endless loop. Between them, annotation stations turn every answer into a new edit.
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The Room
Two feeds, one room
Two screens play fragments from the archive in an endless loop. One shows what visitors have judged violent; the other holds what they have judged non-violent. Watching these feeds, the visitor becomes a spectator of an endless stream of documentary cinema.
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The Annotation Stations
A polarising question, then softer ones
Between the screens are annotation stations. There, visitors watch a complete one-minute film while the interface asks: Is this violent? As visitors answer, softer questions follow — Is this sad? nostalgic? feminist? woke? ultra-right? Each response joins thousands of others and silently repositions every shot. Every film finds its place in a semantic space whose main axis is violence.
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The Algorithmic Edits
Nothing screens the same way twice
The video engines keep rendering new edits for each pole, so no sequence screened will ever repeat in the same order. With this installation, the goal is to place the audience in tension with the question of violence — feeding the archive with affective and political labels such as joy, tenderness, nationalism, or patriarchy. The algorithmic editor projects those annotations onto the screens, creating new documentary experiences.
HOVER — READ THE ROOM · CLICK A SCREEN — RUN THE FEEDS
