
A Machine for Viewing
An echo of a VR experience reverberates through an empty cinema.
In 1970, filmmaker Peter Kubelka designed a movie auditorium in which carefully controlled sight lines and black velvet caused all but the screen to disappear into darkness. He referred to his invisible cinema as “a machine for viewing.” In these adventures in vision, directors Oscar Raby, Richard Misek, and Charlie Shackleton use real-time VR experience, live performance, and video essay to transform the Egyptian theater into “machines for viewing” to explore how we watch films.
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United KingdomGB
- Premiere1 Nov 2019
AustraliaAU
- TheatricalMelbourne International Film Festival8 Apr 2021
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A Machine for Viewing was released on 8 April 2021.
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