Solar cinema is a project commissioned by Art Works in Wimbledon in which a marquee has been transformed into a walk-in camera obscura. Live, brightly coloured, moving images of the landscaped park are projected onto a screen inside the marquee through simply inserting a large lens into one end of the marquee, encouraging viewers to engage with the process and origins of photography.
The centrepiece of Solar Cinema is a camera obscura - Latin for 'dark room'. It takes the form of a marquee-style tent, measuring 6m x 3m (footprint) x 3m (height). Being portable, it can be moved to different locations during the duration of the project. And being a camera, as we understand the phrase today, it will project a live-action moving projection.
The screen inside the tent can be viewed either from behind or in front. Instead of ‘freezing’ the image like a conventional camera does to take photographs or a sequence of stills, the projection ‘frames’ that part of the park with the screen .The different type of looking that it facilitates can be both an experience of the moment and an experience captured.
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