Playing With Fire

By Pierre-Alain GIRAUD

FESTIVAL DE CANNES - as FEST

Music - Performing arts - Completed 2025

Through the fire of Yuja Wang's piano performance, step inside a surreal human odyssey — a multisensory mixed reality concert where music takes shape before your eyes.

    • Year of production
    • 2025
    • Genres
    • Music - Performing arts
    • Countries
    • FRANCE
    • Languages
    • ENGLISH, FRENCH, MANDARIN
    • Duration
    • 60 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Pierre-Alain GIRAUD
    • Synopsis
    • Playing with Fire is an immersive installation that reinvents the classical recital through mixed reality. Inches from a real Steinway piano, audiences experience an intimate virtual performance by Yuja Wang, from Bach and Chopin to Debussy, Prokofiev and Stravinsky. Each piece becomes a chapter in a surreal human odyssey — from the origins of life to the fires of war to rebirth. From this repertoire built together with Yuja, writer and director Pierre-Alain Giraud has crafted a narrative and created vivid visual and musical worlds in collaboration with Icelandic artist Gabríela Friðriksdóttir.