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Siting Cinema: 2018-21


Rio Cinema, Regent Street Cinema

Project PartnerCinema Theatre Association (CTA)
Siting Cinema visually explores the cinema space as a site through a series of film installations created in independent art cinemas across the UK. At a time when cinema as an industry faces significant threats, Siting Cinema celebrates this vital social practice by focusing the audience’s attention on the physical environment they inhabit. It interrogates the physical and perceptual relationship between the viewer and the cinema as site, where the screen, mechanical rig, and audience position become integral elements of the experience.

Audiences are compelled to actively look, engage, and inhabit the site. Each cinema is first filmed with a 360-degree camera, capturing every detail of the empty architectural space under house lights with the curtains drawn closed. This pre-recorded footage is then projected onto the cinema's own screen, creating a layered viewing experience. A tension emerges between the camera’s singular viewpoint and the space it traverses. Rather than focusing on what the rig means for the camera itself, Siting Cinema reorients attention to how this technology enables new perceptions and experiences of the cinema space. The same rig is then repurposed: the camera is replaced with a laser, which traces the original camera movements within the auditorium. 

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