While waiting for the next outdoor season, we’ve got a number of activities coming up. Over the next two months, look for announcements on public presentations in Gothenburg and Stockholm; the second of our post-industrial field trips; and the Open Call starting to spread. At the moment we’re looking at the programming for next summer, and are also preparing a presentation on Kuxa Kanema newsreels from Mozambique.
The Sunshine Socialist Cinema held a presentation at IASPIS in Stockholm during the Open Studios 21-22 September. We made a brief introduction to the cinema setup and programming, screened the video A Ruda Road Movie by Marie Bondeson, announced our Open Call, and all of it through our new mobile Minimal Cinema. For more info on the Open Call, check the menu above.
The solarpanel produces 13 W per hour and charges a car battery. From the car battery and a 220 V converter we can then charge the internal battery of our pico projector.
The pico projector has an internal battery and holds a memorycard, which makes it an easily transportable filmscreening apparatus. It’s only about 13 x 6 x 2 cm in size. When the environment is dark enough, we can get an ok size on the projection, though obviously not as good as with our ordinary projector.
The solarpanel folds up into briefcase size. The whole setup cost us roughly 300 Euros for the projector plus 150 Euros for the power supply (solarpanel, battery and converter).
Final screening for the summer yesterday, and a very nice turnout. Huge thanks to everyone who came!
A rainbow over the cinema, about an hour before the screening
During screenings, we will also try to exhibit posters at various places in the garden. The screenprinted poster showing the technical setup – from solarpanel via battery to projector – comes in two versions:
Marking the entrance
On the porch rail
You can see the influence of Buenos Aires street advertising in our yellow-red screenprinted poster above. Another poster, originally made by Kristina Müntzing for her outdoors installation TO: FROM:, is designed by graphic maestros All The Way To Paris, and features an interview with artist and filmmaker Julian D’Angiolillo. Julian has written the book La Desplaza about the grey economy in Parque Rivadavia, a park in Buenos Aires. This park is where we first came across the Cine Libre Parque Abierto, which was a big influence on our own outdoors cinema. The poster takes the form of a wall-newspaper, and is titled New Rooms For Social Exchange/Intimacy In Public Space.
On the door to the basement where the toilet is found
On the door of the garage
In future seasons, the cinema will try to commission new posters by invited artists, or exhibit existing works by artists who might fit a given theme. More info on this will appear forthwith!
Watermelon for cinemagoers
Audience waiting for sunset
Add potted palm tree for ‘gala’ effect
Introducing the theme
Break for hot tea between Farocki and Persson
All of the above photos taken by Peter Nilsson!
Kristina working on curtains for the cinema
The cover to our first A5 newsletter, which will be distributed at screenings. Latin American signpainter goes William Blake, sort of.
Short update:
Weather forecast for Wednesday looks promising, so the show is still on. Doors open at 20.30, screening starts at approx. 21.00. There’ll be hotdogs and hot drinks, but might still get chilly so bring a sweater and a blanket.
Travel directions are found on the blog, under ‘About us’.
From a trial run last night (on screen is the first film ever shown in a cinema, 46 seconds of ‘Workers leaving the Lumière factory’ by the brothers Lumière). Light conditions acceptable from around 21.00.
Bleachers being built! This is one out of five segments holding up a five-floor bleacher, with seating for about 25 persons.
Check out how other people go about setting up their backyard cinemas at backyardtheater.com/
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