Director: Pierre Ajavon

Film: Dream Machine Ballet

Bio: Like a bridge between two worlds, the user of the Dream Machine can see complex color patterns appear, these patterns can become swirling shapes and symbols, until the user feels overwhelmed with colors.

In “Dream Machine Ballet”, the rhythmic impulses of the music cause patterns, shapes and symbols of colors in movement, which emerge from the unconscious according to the different musical phases.

Pierre Ajavon (b. 1966, Paris) is a visual artist, composer & musician. He lives and works in Paris (France).

Ajavon studied sociology and ethnomusicology with a particular focus on psychedelic culture, and he embraced video art as his main medium as it allowed him to combine image with sound.

His works appeared at art institutions such as LACDA (Los Angeles), Fondazione Ragghianti (Italy), Royal Scottish Academy (Scotland), Pereira Art Museum (Colombia) and CICA Museum (South Korea) as well as events like the Vesuvio International Film Festival (Italy), Experimenta (Portugal), Cairotronica (Egypt), AIDFF (Greece) and MADATAC (Spain).

Pierre Ajavon is also a musician and composer, and references to psychoanalysis and surrealism as well as the study of the relationship between pop imagery and sound constitute the backbone of his artistic practice.