Forward Festival 2017

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Technical production management, video direction and individually programmable stage design for the 2017 Forward Festivals in Vienna, Munich and Zurich.

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Forward Festival

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Technical Production Management
Video Direction
Stage Design

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For the 2017 editions of Forward Festival in Vienna, Munich and Zurich, BILDWERK took on several key responsibilities. Alongside technical production management and video direction across all three editions, we were also commissioned for the complete stage design.

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Vienna, Munich, Zurich

Forward Festival Zurich from above: audience raising their arms in front of the stage in a warehouse hall
Forward Festival Vienna: packed hall during a talk, with colourful lighting on the walls and windows
Screen showing festival artwork and #forwardfestivals above a neon “FORWARD” sign
Audience in Vienna beneath a ceiling washed with blue light patterns and red accents

Forward Festival Vienna

Forward Festival Munich: speaker at the lectern before a large screen and the chevron LED stage design
View down the Munich hall to the stage, with coloured light patterns across the ceiling
Speaker on stage in Munich in front of the screen, festival banners and glowing LED strips

Forward Festival Munich

Two hosts in Zurich in front of the Forward screen and the LED installation of diagonal light bars
Speaker at a #forwardfestivals lectern beside a printed balloon and a festival banner on the truss
Live performance with a guitarist and falling confetti in front of the festival projection
DJ wearing headphones in front of a turquoise visual projection of radiating light lines
Detail of the programmable LED installation: glowing blue diagonal light bars in the dark
Full hall in Zurich between high-bay racks, with a red and blue ceiling projection above the stage
Festival team gathered on stage while a host speaks into the microphone

Forward Festival Zurich, stage design and LED installation

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Ensemble performing in front of four coloured projection screens at sound:frame Festival arrow

Sound:Frame Festival

Close-up of the curved white plastic cords of “IIIIII” in daylight arrow

Beijing Design Week 2014