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Watch 30,000 square meters of a Paris park turn into a 72-day Chinese lantern festival — dragons with color-shifting scales, illuminated palaces, and crowds of 300,000+ moving through it all after dark.
The "Festival of Dragons & Lanterns" ran from December 15, 2023 to February 25, 2024 at Jardin d'Acclimatation in Paris. The exhibition occupied over 30,000 square meters and remained open for 72 consecutive days, spanning Christmas, New Year, Chinese Lunar New Year, and the Lantern Festival.
This 90-second case video captures the scale and atmosphere of that run. It was filmed entirely at night, with no voiceover or subtitles — the visuals carry the story across languages.
The project was a full turn-key delivery: design and fabrication in Zigong, China; container shipping to France; on-site installation by a 28-person crew; and a 6-person maintenance team that stayed on location for the entire run. According to the organizing committee, the exhibition drew over 300,000 visitors — roughly three times the venue's usual attendance — and generated nearly €2 million in direct revenue.
The video opens on a title card establishing the festival name, dates, and location. The first wide shot shows the illuminated entrance gateway — a 25-meter-wide, 8-meter-high archway featuring two coiled dragons with color-changing scales synchronized to music. Red lanterns hang along the approach. Visitors begin to enter frame from the right, walking toward the gate.
The camera moves through the dragon zone. A massive coiled dragon dominates the frame, its gold-red scales catching the light at different angles as the camera passes. Next, a phoenix with wings spread in a blue-pink gradient. Mythical beast sculptures line the pathway — a qilin, a stylized jiao, and other creatures from Chinese mythology. Visitors pause in front of each piece; several take photographs from multiple angles.
The scene shifts to the architectural installations. A grand pagoda with a golden roof and crimson pillars anchors the center of the frame. A corridor of glowing archways stretches into the background, its depth visible from the single-point perspective shot. The camera lingers on the pavilion structures, showing the layered construction and the hand-painted surface details.
Visitors walk through a covered passage lined with hanging lights. The tunnel creates a complete enclosure — lights above, lights on both sides, and the ground reflecting back the glow. Wide shots of the festival grounds follow, showing the full extent of the exhibition and the density of the installations across the park.
The final sequence focuses on visitors: families moving through themed zones, children pointing at displays, groups stopping for photographs. The closing wide shot pulls back to show the festival at night, with the Paris skyline faintly visible in the distance. The LanternsArt watermark remains in frame throughout.
Yes — and the Paris project demonstrates why. The exhibition met European safety standards, cleared French customs, and operated for 72 days through Paris winter without a single major downtime incident. For event planners and venue operators, this is the reference case for what a full turn-key international delivery looks like in practice.
The installation used modular prefabrication: every component was built in Zigong, tested for fit, disassembled into shipping containers, and reassembled on-site. A 28-person crew completed the setup, and a 6-person team remained on location for daily inspections, winter debris cleaning, and electrical checks after rain.
What made the Paris run reliable was not a single innovation but the combination: modular construction that allowed individual components to be serviced without dismantling entire installations; a maintenance team that lived on-site for the full duration; and a design that treated the venue's existing landscape as part of the composition rather than something to cover.
For more examples of large-scale event projects delivered on this model, visit the Event Decorations page.
Q: What kind of events are these installations suitable for?
A: Outdoor festivals, cultural celebrations, theme park seasonal events, and large-scale public exhibitions. Installations can be customized to any theme — from traditional Chinese mythology to Western holiday motifs.
Q: How long does it take to produce and install a festival of this scale?
A: A project of this size typically requires 3–6 months from design to opening, depending on the number and complexity of installations. The Paris project included 30 days of ocean freight, which was factored into the timeline from day one.
Q: Do you handle international logistics and installation?
A: Yes. LanternsArt provides full turn-key service — design, production, container shipping, customs clearance, and on-site installation. The Paris festival was managed end-to-end by our team, including a maintenance crew that remained on location for all 72 days.
0:00–0:15 — Title card: "Festival of Dragons & Lanterns — December 15, 2023 to February 25, 2024 — Jardin d'Acclimatation, Paris." Cut to opening wide shot: an illuminated entrance gateway with two coiled dragons, their scales shifting color in sequence. Red lanterns line the pathway. Visitors enter frame from the right, walking toward the gate.
0:15–0:40 — Close-up of a massive coiled dragon — gold and red scales catching the light at different angles. Cut to a phoenix with wings spread in a blue-pink gradient. Cut to a pathway lined with mythical beast sculptures: a qilin, a stylized jiao, and other creatures. Visitors walk past, pausing to photograph. One visitor crouches to shoot from a low angle; another films with a phone held overhead.
0:40–1:00 — Grand pagoda with a golden roof and crimson pillars, shot from a low angle to emphasize height. Cut to a corridor of glowing archways, receding into the background in single-point perspective. The camera moves slowly forward through the corridor. Surface details on the pillars are visible: painted motifs, layered construction, and hand-finished edges.
1:00–1:15 — Visitors walk through a covered passage lined with hanging lights above and on both sides. The ground reflects the glow back upward. Cut to wide shots of the festival grounds — multiple installation zones visible at once, the full extent of the exhibition apparent. Crowds distributed across the space, moving between zones.
1:15–1:30 — Families walking through themed zones. Children pointing at displays; parents taking photographs. A group stops for a posed shot in front of a pavilion. Final wide shot pulls back to show the festival at night, the Paris skyline faintly visible on the horizon. LanternsArt watermark remains in frame.