Circle Saints

Client: Circle Saints Festival
Year: 2024
Location: Monteodorisio, IT
Category: Show Design, Lighting

Technical direction, stage and lighting design for the 2024 edition of Circle Saints Festival in Monteodorisio.

The festival's main venue was Chiesa di San Bernardino — a small ruined church on an isolated hill in the countryside outside Vasto, closed to the public for safety reasons, simultaneously quiet and deeply uncanny. Rather than working around its inaccessibility, the design embraced it: the church was lit from the inside as a living landmark to be experienced from the fields below, present without being reachable.

The stage adjacent to the church was conceived as a contemporary Calvary — the iconography of sacred gathering stripped of its religious martyrdom and reframed through the lens of the festival crowd: people assembling in the dark, in a state of collective agitation, to witness something happen before them.

Artists: Burro Studio Radio, Mattias Clay, Ferrari, Bawrut Silencio, A-Tweed, European Vampire, Oltrefuturo, Ketia, Matteo D'Ascenzo, Treasure Island, Disco Fritto, Emmanuelle, Populous, Miguel Karakaz, Dvtis, Simone de Kunovich

Reel ©Arsonars, Francesco Lovino 

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 Location: 

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Aert Mytens - Crocifissione per l’altare maggiore della Basilica di San Bernardino a L’Aquila (1599) and later copy
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Previz made in Unreal Engine 5
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Francesco Bianchi Ferrari - Pala delle Tre Croci (1490), Galleria Estense, Palazzo dei Musei (MO)
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Previz made in Unreal Engine 5

Pictures ©Silverstre Fern / 

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