During rehearsals for the ceremony paying tribute to the victims of the November 13, 2015 attack, beams of light were projected from the forecourt of Saint-Gervais church into the clouds of the Parisian sky. The result was a stunning display of white northern lights over the Luxembourg Gardens.
The images filmed on this occasion are used in the animated graphic sequence.
A snapshot from the sequence:
Three sequences based on six moving rectangles.
The first with only six rectangles coloured in different ways:
The second, with five dark blue rectangles and one red rectangle, against a background of the sun on the horizon:
The third, with six coloured rectangles on a full moon background:
A snapshot of each sequence:
A sequence accompanied musically by excerpts from Olivier Messiaen's Turangalila Symphony.
Three snapshots of the sequence:
The sequence incorporates all the drawn elements of the "waves at night..., waves by day" sequence, themselves taken from the latest digital compositions posted online.
Four snapshots from the sequence:
Waves spread across the sand or break on the Sillon dike in Saint-Malo during the high tides of September 2025.
