Urbanscreen projection with Christie

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Christie projectors played a key role in the celebration of the 50th anniversary of Thessaloniki International Film Festival as the OLYMPION’s building in the center of the city was turned into a screen display for the new project of URBAN SCREEN.

UrbanScreen projection was an artistic approach to the main motto of the 50th film festival, “Why cinema now?” The projection main concept was to show the deconstruction and reconstruction of the history of cinema so that any viewer could give his own answer to the question. Urbanscreen conceived and produced custom-made media installations using high artistic standards, an architectural approach and a consistently professional completion, creating uniquely outstanding impressions.

Two Cristie LX-1500 projectors were placed in a special waterproof construction which also was housing the media server and the system operator. Especially for this project Christie, through the local distributor Space Vision, provided Alpha Vision with two 1.5-2.0:1 High Performance Zoom Lenses. The use of those lenses secured the highest image quality in this large-scale projection based on their unique F value 1.7- 2.3 which gave double brightness.

You can see also the video in Alphavision's blog here.