A selection of immersive, interactive and event-based projects: from real-time show control for the Urban Xperience experience built for UrbanSoccer, to the audiovisual integration of exhibitions at the Palais de Tokyo.
A world first designed for UrbanSoccer: Urban Xperience reinvents 5-a-side football (and up to 7!) as a 90-minute immersive experience, from the locker room to the podium. Personalisation, entrance tunnel, a match in a virtual stadium, Sports Bar and replays — every key play becomes a show.
On the touch kiosks, each player picks their team name, kit, number and anthem; their photo becomes an animated player card. Then the immersive corridor and the giant-screen introduction, 2 × 30 minutes of play in a 35,000-seat stadium, and finally the post-match highlights and interviews at the Sports Bar.
A 90-minute experience — from the locker room to the podium.
5-a-side football like you've never felt it. Step into the atmosphere of the big games: a personalised 90-minute experience, a world first, where every match is unique — in a 35,000-seat virtual stadium just for your team.
Client: Urban Soccer Nanterre / Compagnie des Alpes · Producer: 5MOTION · Management & production: Sylvain Billion, Nicolas Mollet · Director: David Tessier · Assistant director: Corentin Blond · Technical director: Antoine Pintout · Live generative-effects developer: Lucas Pomot · AI / booking / control-interfaces developer: Gregory Semah · Motion design: The Mill · Sound design & mix: Manu · Video programming & playback: Videmus · Show control: Darkvalley R&D.
Four or five pieces of software that did not talk to each other: project management, accounting, shared files, mailboxes. Everything moved from one to the next by hand.
The cost was not data entry, it was the lag: the month's figures arrived the following month, and a project's margin was discovered at the end.
Four tools, rolled out over the course of 2026.
We did not add one more piece of software: we designated a single source of truth, the project-management tool. Most of the work is not spectacular, it is groundwork: nomenclature, categories, billable or not, deductible VAT down to the line item. Without that reference base, you automate disorder.
It then lives on its own: programs cross-check the data, flag contradictions, file the documents and add the missing context.
Automate the tedious. Give people back the big picture, the choice and the informed decision. The studio's management tool has become the single reference base for its activity: information is entered once, and management sees its figures the same day.
Darkvalley designs staged experiences: we know these trades from the inside, and the reference base looks like the trade rather than like a piece of software. Our work does not stop at show control: equipping the back office of a creative company means giving it back the hours taken from design.
Project carried out under a non-disclosure agreement. The screenshots show the real interfaces, fed with an anonymized dataset.
Interweaving dance, live and electronic music, mixed reality, video, lighting and immersive sound (drawing on Ircam's cutting-edge technologies), and inspired by Hans Christian Andersen's emblematic eponymous tale (1847), the show L'Ombre resonates strikingly with our contemporary world and its innovations.
Facing the dancers and a percussionist, and fitted with a mixed-reality headset, the audience wanders through a fantastical world where the tangible and the virtual blur into one.
A 57-minute show.
A scholar grants his shadow the ability to come to life and gain autonomy, so that it can break free and ultimately cast the human into darkness… A living, augmented performance, "L'Ombre" is a groundbreaking, hybrid project conceived by choreographer Blanca Li and composer Édith Canat de Chizy.
Artistic direction and choreography: Blanca Li · Original music: Édith Canat de Chizy · Visual direction: Vincent Chazal · Video projections: Charles Carcopino · Lighting: Pascal Laajili · Costumes: Laurent Mercier · Percussion: Florent Jodelet · Ircam musical computing: Serge Lemouton, Matéo Fayet · Ircam sound diffusion: Clément Cerles · Production: Compagnie Blanca Li, Film Addict · Co-production: France Télévisions, Flash Forward Entertainment (Taiwan), Ircam/Spectacles vivants-Centre Pompidou · Supported by: Chanel, TAICCA, CNC · Patron: AXA.
A multimedia exhibition exploring collective narratives rooted in intimate experiences: photographs, films, videos, music, digital installations, sculptures and objects, deployed throughout the spaces of the Palais de Tokyo.
The work brings together 19 screens and video players and 132 spatialised audio tracks, orchestrated as a single coherent whole.
An exhibition by Mohammed Bourouissa, where each space forms a fragment of a single collective narrative, between the intimate and the political.
An immersive XR installation examining coral bleaching. Visitors move through panoramic projections of underwater landscapes; recognition of their gestures triggers visual transformations, set against audio accounts gathered from researchers in Mayotte.
Four HD video projectors compose an immersive, continuous and seamless panorama.
An installation by Simon Rouby that turns the visitor's gesture into a moving narrative on the fragility of coral reefs.
