1. 2 ou 3 choses que je sais de projecteur cinématographique / The two, three things I know about film projectors

Right after or right before the Lumierè brothers projected moving images on the screen using a cinematograph in 1895, film projectors were invented around the world. Once 35mm film was established as the basic format for commercial movies, projectors developed in diverse ways according to changes in film. They went from ones that were cranked by hand to show short silent films to others that used a motor and operated at a standardize speed of 24 frames per second by reading sound data, while the source of light changed from carbon arc lamps to xenon arc bulbs. Projectors for projecting small films like 9.5mm, 28mm, 16mm, and 8mm that were made for home or amateur use were also being sold early.

However, film projectors have been steadily declining since the introduction of digital cinema projectors in 1999 and only a very small number of theaters and film archives are screening movies on film.
 

2. Im Lauf der Zeit / In the Course of Time

In a writing concerning a rather heavy subject matter, a philosopher wrote, "The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it can be recognized and is never seen again." How can we hold on to past time which has already passed us by so quickly and will never return? Maybe images of the past which are captured in each frame of film are being summoned to the present time through a projector to "show through memory what the future will be".

Director Yu Hyun-mok's home movies and Surise by Director Hong Ki-seon will be screened on a digital projector installed on 8mm and 16mm projectors.
 

3. Cinema Paradiso / Cinema Paradiso

'You're always alone. You see the same film over and over again... You work on Christmas... Cooped up in here you die of heat in the summer and die of cold in the winter... when you hear from up here that there's a full house and that people are laughing, having fun... Then you're happy, too.' says Alfredo to Toto who frequents the projection room. A projectionist's job is exhausting, stuck alone in a small box with the noise of the projector going round. But like Alfredo who worked at Cinema Paradiso said, all that is forgotten once the small particles flowing out of the projection room window and shimmering endlessly on the screen evoke a sense of awe that is unfathomable.

Film clips of ‘The Projection Room and the Projectionist, Theater’ and interview footage of the Korean Film Archive and Seoul Art Cinema's 6 projectionists will recreate our very own Cinema Paradiso.