10TH GENIUS LOCI WEIMAR FESTIVAL FINISHED ON SUNDAY

 After three successful summery days and nights, the 10th-anniversary edition of the facade projection festival GENIUS LOCI WEIMAR finished at midnight on Sunday. This year, for the first time, four facades of buildings were illuminated with five video projections. More than 60,000 visitors took to the streets of Weimar to finally explore the "genius loci", the spirit and history of the city's remarkable buildings.

A first audiovisual impression can be found here in the 2021 festival trailer.

The main attractions were the five video projections on four buildings: the old city castle Ensemble Bastille opened the festival, where the artists Tettenborn and Ross told the story of the maids Johanna Katharina Höhn beheading in 1783. The cinematic aesthetic was inspired by the expressionist film works of the 1920s. The Italian artist duo Gagliardi and Musca performed a powerful animation on the Marstall, which is linked to the visual worlds of Christopher Nolan. At the Goethe- und Schiller Archiv, an animation by the artists Seraji and Madreimova from Iran and Russia was shown. Its wonderfully poetic illustrations of Goethe's late work, the "West-Eastern Divan" were in stark contrast to the dramatic telling of Inside at Marstall. At the Altenburg, the former residence of Franz Liszt, two works were on display this time: a fascinating, technically brilliant abstract performance to the music of Franz Liszt by Flightgraf from Japan, followed by a story of the turbulent flight of the composer Richard Wagner from Dresden to Weimar, retold in impressively vivid illustrated imagery by Vanessa Cardui from Berlin.

The festival route was accompanied by Latlights, a luminescent construction developed for the festival, which magically illuminated the Ilm River at the dam on the Kegelbrücke, a forest path lovingly designed by Lichtplanung + from Kronach up to Jenaer Straße, and a facade projection by Logando from Leipzig. At the Erlebnisportal Weimar, saxophonist Moritz Köther played his compositions including four instruments created especially for the festival every hour. The route ended at the "Schillernde Lichtung" at the Platz der Demokratie, a party location with interactive video projections by Juladi Interactive and a curated short film program, where the enthusiastic visitors could happily end the festival with disco and downtempo beats by the DJanes Die Rote Dora, tatse, and Hyper Hugo

GLW2021 Trailer from MXWendler on Vimeo.