00:00The Bristol Light Festival has returned to the city. Among the installations are a giant cat paring on the harbourside,
00:07interactive hot air balloons and a kinetic light energy display located in a cave.
00:13Running until Saturday the 28th of February with installations active each evening from 5 to 9.30pm.
00:20So Bristol Light Festival is a free event that happens across the city centre. We're founded by Bristol Business Improvement
00:26District to really bring colour and light and play to the city centre at a traditionally dark time of year.
00:32So we've got everything from a giant cat that's 10 metres long that's sleeping peacefully on the harbourside.
00:38We've got a car park that's been transformed into this amazing rainbow that you can experience.
00:44We're in the caves at the moment that have been taken over with this amazing piece of work by Parker
00:49Hyell.
00:51We've got everything from tiny fairies to sculptures of ballerinas, something for everyone really.
00:58One of the big ones this year was our collaboration with Cameron Balloons.
01:01Hot air ballooning is such a famous thing in Bristol.
01:04It's so exciting to be doing this collaboration where anyone can be flying a tiny version of a hot air
01:10balloon.
01:11Visitors can experience 10 large-scale displays across the city, including 11 tiny glowing fairies perched within bell jaws at
01:20the Royal West of England Academy and jelly-like creatures along at Finzel's Reach that respond to sound.
01:26Seven illuminated steel sculptures will cast ballerina silhouettes across Royal Fork Gardens, while illuminated swings return next to Circo Media
01:37in Portland Square.
01:38The Jacob's Wall will be in Redcliffe Cave.
01:40It was originally made about seven years ago.
01:43And there's two things about the artwork.
01:46The first is that it's analogue.
01:48So it's not using any digital components.
01:51It's kind of a...
01:52It's actually not even analogue.
01:54It's mechanical.
01:56So there's sort of DC motors and relay switches, which are kind of controlling the movement of these panels.
02:02But the effect you get, despite it being quite an analogue and mechanical technology, it has quite a digital feel
02:08to it.
02:09The panels are actually not themselves coloured.
02:12It's got a wooden mirrored side.
02:14So it's sort of flipping between those two.
02:16But based on the way they flip and the way that they fall under gravity, it will kind of pan
02:20the room to receive and reflect different colours to your eye.
02:23Right. These caves that we're in, they're a bit more condensed than, say, like an open piazza.
02:28So this piece, luckily, is kind of adaptable and its modularity allows it to kind of fit into this cave
02:34and then adapt to different spaces.
02:36The free annual event is curated by award-winning creative director Catherine Dukes and founded by the Bristol City Centre
02:43Business Improvement District.
02:45It's designed to attract tourism, encourage public interaction and boost winter footfall,
02:51transforming familiar spaces into visually engaging interactive environments for all audiences.
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