From Golden Mile to The Cathay: The Projector’s long and ‘organic’ journey as Singapore’s only indie cinema

Moving on to the areas that The Projector will be taking over: Their cinema halls at Golden Mile Tower can house about 550 audience members at any one time, while the Fluorescents Room at Projector X: Riverside chairs a cosy forty eight.  

With The Cathay pop-up, though, bigger will be better. Color teased that the cinema will be taking over four of the halls presently there, including the 590-seater Cathay Grand. “They do not build them such as this anymore and I think it’ll also be an opportunity for all of us to see what we can do with an extra-large area.

“For several films, we can only do limited tests, which were previously restricted to the (Green Area at Golden Mile Tower’s) capacity associated with 230. But if we’re able to do a screening in a 590-seater, that would associated with film accessible to more people. ” 

There’s also The particular Cathay’s premium hall with 24 rich seats, which The Projected is “excited for an experiment with regard to ideas of what our version of the premium product would be like. ” 

Another four halls will be decommissioned with seats and movie theater equipment removed. Bronze said: “W e’re excited using the potential of those areas because we see them as opportunities for collaboration. You could be any sort of live artist or art group, we’re excited pertaining to collaborators to come forward. ”

Of course , we furthermore wanted to know what fans and casual movie viewers alike may look forward to at the forthcoming pop-up. There’s the Italian Film Celebration slated for Sep 8 to 25 and the Cartoons Subterranean Animation Festival through Oct 22, that will feature discussion sessions with local directors.  

Tan excitedly mentioned interactive cinema experiences as well, which were suspended due to COVID-19. These include “bad movie” bingo, Halloween party screenings of The Rugged Horror Picture Display (which audiences can dress up for) plus post-film discussion panels.  

Outside of films, culture vultures can expect spoken term, comedy and live music events along with art installations plus artist takeovers; the area will also be part of the yearly Singapore Art 7 days at the start of 2023.