A Machine for Viewing
2021, English. Directed by Charlie Shackleton & Richard Misek & Oscar Raby.
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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- 0h 30m
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- English
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- 8 April 2021
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Who directed A Machine for Viewing?
A Machine for Viewing (2021) was directed by Charlie Shackleton and Richard Misek and Oscar Raby.