cinematheque |ˈsinəməˌtek|
Archive/RSS
noun1 a motion-picture library or archive.
2 a small movie theater, esp. one that shows avant-garde or classic movies.
ORIGIN 1960s: from French cinémathèque, from cinéma ‘cinema,’ on the pattern of bibliothèque ‘library.’
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
“StudioFilmClub is a weekly film club hosted by artists Peter Doig and Che Lovelace in Trinidad. It was launched in February 2003 in Doig’s studio at the Caribbean Contemporary Arts (CCA7) centre in Laventille, near Port of Spain. StudioFilmClub screens Caribbean, foreign language, and independent films, usually on Thursday evenings. Its casual, no-frills atmosphere attracts an eclectic audience of artists, writers, and other movie fans.
Doig paints original posters for most of the weekly screenings; an exhibition of 75 of these was held at the Museum Ludwig in Cologne, Germany, and the Zurich Kunsthalle in Switzerland in 2005.”
From Wikipedia.
The Cineroleum. A temporary cinema in an abandoned filling station. Amazing.
More pictures here.
Article from the Telegraph here.
The Cornerhouse, Manchester
“As much a cultural forum as a cinema, the Cornerhouse shows what artistic audacity can do to an old furniture shop. With Helen Mirren and Damien Hirst among the patrons, it was established as a charitable trust in 1985 and houses three art galleries, three cinemas, a cafe and bookshop bar. The idea is to mingle filmmakers, artists and audiences to debate ideas. The focus is on independent films, but you’re as likely to taste culture in the cafe, which is beloved of pop groupies and emerging bands.”
Anna Tims, The Guardian
Alec Soth, Grand Twin Cinema, Paris, Texas 2006, (Thirty-three Theaters and a Funeral Home)
“I’ve always been interested in typology…I was always taken by the filmmaker Wim Wenders…Kings of the Road… the movie has a lot to do with the death of cinema. So I went to Texas to do this project…to photograph primarily former movie theaters in Texas…with the movie theaters, yeah, there’s this quality of longing for when we had the collective experience of cinema and here, sort of in this grid, you can see the death of all of that.”
