Vertical cinema to offer better projector positioning
The world’s first vertical cinema is to open in Paris next year, with the audience placed in balcony pods at a steep incline, allowing for closer, more central projector positioning.
A vertical cinema, with the audience at steep incline in pods inspired by theatre balconies, is to open in Paris next year, offering an opportunity for better placement of projectors to create an image free of distortion. Customers watching films will no longer have to sit in long rows, following a period of social distancing.
The staggered platforms, on a slope between 50 and 60% steeper than a typical cinema, allow the central positioning of the projector to produce an image that is free of distortion. The Ōma cinema format is compatible with any type of digital projection and sound system technology on the market and the platform distribution is customisable for use in new or existing buildings, with up to three rows of up to six seats in each platform.
In comments posted on the cinema concept’s website, Pierre Chican, cinema architect, founder and CEO of Ōma Cinem, said: “Whereas all the cinemas built for more than 50 years now are similar and reproduce the same seating arrangement of the audience, this concept of movie theatre creates a cinematographic experience at the same time intimate, spectacular and immersive, where every seat in the house is the best seat in the house.”
Speaking to The Metro newspaper, co-founder and business partner Nicholas Chican, said: “The inspiration came from the older, Italian theatre with the balconies, and the opera houses. We wanted to make a link between the older opera houses, with the architecture, and the traditional theatre, within like a futuristic movie theatre.”
Ōma is offering the design as a patent to other cinema owners who wish to recreate the experience in their own theatres.
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Posted: 24th September 2020