Arcana

Turn the everyday into the impossible. A card appears on your phone, a fingerprint reveals a choice, and mist gives way to an unexpected revelation. Arcana brings together eight magic tricks that make your phone part of the performance.

Card to phone
A card, coin or image appears where there was nothing a moment before. It seems to take on a presence on the screen, glides across it and finally vanishes, leaving the phone as it was at the start.

Rastro
Every touch seems to leave a clue. Fingerprints light up over hands and cards, and an unexpected match points to the spectator’s card. A magic presentation with the atmosphere of a spy investigation.

X-rays
A card back seems to surrender its secret. Before the spectator’s eyes, an identity emerges over the card, turning a familiar object into a window onto the impossible. The revelation can continue with other cards in the routine.

Fogged glass
Your phone’s glass seems to mist over, and a card or image gradually emerges through the condensation. A finger wipes the surface and erases the revelation until no trace of the effect remains.

Impossible prediction
An apparently free choice leads to a revelation that seems to have been anticipated from the beginning. A mentalism effect that turns a card routine into a moment of surprise.

Celebrity in the gallery
A spectator thinks of a celebrity and you show them a baby photo: a joke that seems to end the trick. But as you zoom out of the gallery, your photographs gradually form the face of the chosen celebrity. A visual surprise that turns laughter into astonishment.

The mummy
Inside a torchlit tomb, a mummy walks among the shadows and seems to hear the voices around it. Suddenly it turns toward the spectator, the light goes out and a presence approaches from the darkness. A hand emerges from behind the phone and takes a coin: the cursed treasure has returned to its owner.

Ella the Spider
A spider’s legs peek over the edge of the phone before it ventures onto the screen. It walks toward wherever it is summoned until a touch startles it and sends it scurrying away. It seems to have escaped the phone… and when the spectator turns their hand over, the spider is right there.

Arcana is a tool for magic performances. The effects described are part of routines prepared by the performer.