By Elina Shatkin, September 12, 2003
On Friday, July 11, 2003 at the 23rd CAMBRIDGE FILM FESTIVAL, Arts Alliance Media will launch the first digital cinema circuit in the UK, with the first ever HD digital screening in the UK of a film by a UK director. The screening is also the first HD digital screening of a UK production and is taking place at the Arts Picturehouse on Friday 11, July as part of the 23rd Cambridge Film Festival.
The film that will be screened is Peter Greenaway's "The Tulse Luper Suitcases: Part 1 The Moab Story." It is a sweeping trilogy/epic about the life and times of Tulse Luper, a man bigger than the world itself. The film covers some sixty years of recent history from 1928, when Uranium was discovered, to the collapse of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Cold War in 1989
. It stars an eclectic cast of actors including: Kathy Bates, Steven Mackintosh, Deborah Harry and JJ Field in the title role. It is the start of a large scale multi-media project encompassing film, television, books, a play, the internet and an eventual collection of 92 DVDs each filled with the contents of the suitcase that adventurer Tulse Luper packs on his travels.
The Cambridge Arts Picturehouse is the first cinema to be equipped by Arts Alliance Media with a digital server and projector. Arts Alliance Media will be equipping further art-house screens in the next few months as part of a commercial trial.
The digitized film is stored on and played out from an EVS CineStore Solo server. The digital image is projected onto the screen using a Digital Projection IS10 projector with a Texas Instruments DLPTM 1280 x 1024 DMD chip.
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