The Cinema

Rohan Panchal

The cinema is desolate, empty rows of seats show no signs of the premier of Pixar’s Onward from March 2020. Clicking on the cassette player next to the movie theatre allows one to toggle through the collection of videos displaying stock footage of people commuting, working, gathering, and then eventually shift to videos of the events of the current pandemic. The ambient lighting from the spotlights surrounding the movie theatre also correlate with the content appearing on the screen, using the average color of each frame as the color for each light source. Each seat is able to be clicked on to move the player to the seated position.