SLIDERS: a collective experience of interactive cinema

SLIDERS is an ambitious artistic and technical endeavour that proposes a new way of imagining and creating cinema. We have invented an open computer machine [1] that enables three "performers" to mount, in real-time and using visual and sound data stored in databases, a new type of film. This film, which has been played at performances in front of spectators, is what we call "the movie to come", that is to say, an N+1 film in which a new track, a programming track, has been added to the video and sound tracks. One of the features of this new type of film is that it has an infinite number of possible configurations or models.