2006

A live immersive event fusing film, music & theatre, with a series of curated and new performance installations leading up to the main screening of “The Matrix” and VJ show by The Eclectic Method. Thematic performance installations included a machine that transmitted audience members' brain activity on screen (in the form of short films!) as well as a pod-like 'oculus' allowing shorts to be viewed in a more intimate setting, one person at a time. Created for Future Cinema (now Secret Cinema), an offshoot of independent short film label Future Shorts.

Conceived in 2005, London-based events company Future Cinema set out to create immersive and social cinematic experiences as an alternative to the multiplex, by staging large cinema events that incorporate aspects of theatre as well as audience participation. Using abandoned or disused buildings, it explores narratives as well as space in its productions. Presently, events are attended by over 100,000 people. This form of ‘Live Cinema’ introduces site-specific, immersive cultural experiences, marrying narratives with play-along action, in unique participatory social experiences. Fuelled by a desire to fill the void left by an over-saturated technological world, it invites audiences to lose themselves in serendipitous, imaginary environments that challenge the way we perceive culture and social interaction.

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Theme: Futuristic Laboratory / Main screening: The Matrix

Location: Mansion House, Dublin, Ireland

Artistic Director

Produced by Future Cinema & Stella Artois (Studio Artois Live)