In all countries of the world, outdoor cinema screenings are witnessing a growing boom
During the summer, open-air cinema screenings flourish all over the world, and in distinctive locations, such as the Louvre Museum courtyard or the top of a cliff in Norway.
German businessman Christian Kremer, whose small company Erscreen is one of the main suppliers of screens with inflatable frames used in open-air cinemas, says, “The whole world is calling for open-air cinemas!”
He tells AFP that he sells "hundreds of screens a year" to customers in more than 130 countries, including a growing number of luxury hotels and private islands such as the Seychelles and French Polynesia, as well as cities wanting to stage summer outdoor cinemas.
Louvre square
Each country is distinguished by the format it adopts for foreign cinema shows. "In the UK, for example, tickets are sometimes sold with food baskets to treat the event as a picnic in style," says Cramer, while other countries prefer showing films that spectators watch lying on the lawn.
In Paris, a giant screen was installed in the courtyard of the Louvre Museum until Sunday, on the occasion of the open-air "Cinema Paradiso" festival, which is jointly organized by the "MK2" cinema group and the largest museum in the world.
Watching an outdoor cinema in Paris stefano rellandini/afp
Although participation in the festival is free, people must register their names. Every evening, 2,500 names are withdrawn from the 100,000 people who applied to the organizers to attend the cinema screenings.
"In a world that is increasingly going digital, outdoor cinemas are an important trend that highlights people's desire to diversify their experiences," MK2's Alisha Karmitz told AFP. "By the glory of a projector and screen, We are recreating a square similar to village squares in privileged places."
Cinema shows in a cemetery
In Bologna, in northern Italy, the "Cinema Retrovato" festival is held annually in the famous Piazza Maggiore, which witnesses exciting cinematic performances, including "Telma and Louise", in which this year's session of the festival opened. In Berlin, cinemas are held outdoors on rooftops.
The trend is a tradition in Athens and an approved event in New York, which will see two episodes of "Good Women" premiere at Greenwood Cemeteries in Brooklyn.
In Parisian Seine-Saint-Denis, open-air cinemas in towns and parks attract families who never go to the cinema, and "contribute to a form of social harmony, the best solution that can be found" to the problems of the popular neighbourhoods. This is confirmed by Fabrice Chambon, director of cultural affairs in "East Ensemble", which includes several regions, including Bantan and Bobigny.
These cinematic shows constitute a simple solution in terms of implementation, as a mere screen can bring together 500 film lovers. The largest model of the screens is 20 meters high, equivalent to a seven-storey building.
Likewise, wealthy Saudi families used some of the screens provided by “R-Screen” to show movies in the middle of the desert with spectators sitting on carpets, while screens were used in Kenya to educate residents of remote areas that cinemas are not available to them, about the life of elephants.
Finally, a screen was installed in Norway at the top of a 1,200-meter-high cliff to display the new part of the “Mission Impossible” series in the places where Tom Cruise filmed scenes from the work.
In France, holding outdoor cinema screenings requires permission from the National Cinema Center, which last year issued 4,344 approvals for outdoor cinema screenings, 9 out of 10 of which are free.
And while the cinema community is concerned about the future of the dark seventh art halls, those in charge of outdoor cinema shows are relieved. Manufacturers work on self-sufficient devices in terms of energy and are charged by solar radiation during the day, and on “LED” screens that allow movies to be shown during the day, so it is not necessary to wait for nightfall to start cinematic shows.
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