Fuck Yeah Theatres

Beautifully Designed Movie Theaters in Golden California

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"The movie, its history, media characteristics and experimental possibilities form the core of Teresa Hubbard’s and Alexander Birchler’s artistic work. It is mainly the illusionistic moment, the ambivalent relationship of reality and fiction, which inspired several of their works. With Filmstills, they turn to the actual place at which reality and fiction merge – the reality of the place and its visitors and the fiction of the movie. The digital processing of the photographs as well as their sizes make the viewers perceive the cinemas as film-stills or clips from a movie… The artists’ subject is not the movie-theater as an architecture, but rather the auratic impact of the movie which transforms a place.”

"The film is a play on surface, the theatre is a play in space, and this difference has not been realized concretely in any architecture, either that of the theater or the cinema. The ideal cinema is the house of silence…The spectator must be able to lose himself in an imaginary, endless space."

The original San Francisco Fox Theater, one of five theaters built by William Fox, opened in 1929 but was closed and later demolished in 1963

Built 1901, renovated 2001.

On 30 June 2012 the opera house was inscribed in the UNESCO World Heritage List