SHOWTIME
2008
Live performance with video projection, digital print on archival paper, 100 x 106 cm

Showtime is a guided tour narrated by a voice-over, accompanied by a video projection made of intertitles. The artist is present on stage – yet very dimly lit – and narrates a Premiere Night in a Los Angeles movie theater. Words act like a tracking-shot slowly moving from the exterior to the interior of the theater, depicting the crowd, the balconies, the stage, the void screen … As listeners go along the story, the Premiere Night slowly turns out to be a fiction, since the theater has long been closed down.

http://www.franceculture.com/emission-la-vignette-la-vignette-marcelline-delbecq-2010-10-11.html  

RECOLLECTION

2006
Digital print on archival paper
110 x 70 cm

Recollection is an inventory of movie theatres architectures photographed in Britain. All those buildings have now disappeared and their representations stand for the countless hours of projections within their walls.

Marcelline Delbecq

also of note: 

http://www.marcellinedelbecq.net/?p=1370

James Benning

http://124.153.64.38/topic/person/james-benning-6x5bibliothek-video-qzNvdFSnr_E-35321-1.html

At a recent screening at the Pompidou, Francis Marmande introduced a series of films including La Revue Nègre with Josephine Baker.  He noted that in the film her movements and gestures are extremely exaggerated as the dance was meant to be seen in a large theater where the average spectator was some distance from the sage and not up close through the lens of a movie camera....

two cinemas in new york

http://afterthefinalcurtain.net/2012/02/13/the-ridgewood-theatre/

http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/1360

delirious music hall -

Broadway by Light by zohilof

http://afterthefinalcurtain.net/2011/04/05/memoirs-of-a-movie-palace/

demon cinema

orpheum basement museum, minnesota

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4707873

http://www2.hawaii.edu/~angell/thsa/THEATRES%20ON%20SCREEN%20database.pdf

architecht lobby observatory room / cloud club cloud club, "the highest in the world" cloudclub In fact, it was at a meeting in the Cloud Club in 1936, just after a Cuban honeymoon with Clare Boothe (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4XTeh6tjIs), that Luce dreamed up what became Life magazine. Luce's son, Henry Luce III, recalls visiting the Cloud Club once with his father when he was 12 or 13. "I remember the wind whistling through very noisily," before closure and observatory room "In the design of the public observation lounge, located just above the Cloud Club, Van Alen outdid himself. In all likehood inspired by German Expressionist filmsets, perhaps especially by The Canbinet of Doctor Caligari, Van Alen capitalized on the narrow gallerylike space tucked in under the spire by treating the walls as a series of tilted in angular planes collapsing i9nward toward the ceiling. Above a wooden dardo that sinuosly curved to represent a horizont of rolling hills, the walls were painted with fading sun rays and shaded at the top into a star-studded nighttime sky. The lighting fixtures were miniature Saturns: globes of milky glass ringed in metal"