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Ritzy show poster 1996 (PT)

The second format was slightly more successful. Entitled 'Exploding Cinema presents six to nine lo/no-budget films bubbled up from the underground', which were followed by a 'mystery feature'. After about forty-five minutes of short films there would be a break. People would sneak in cans of drink. Games were played like 'Seat Slotto'. 'Seat Slotto' involved a (previously prepared) video projection of a numbered grid which corresponded to the seating plan of the auditorium. A little plasticine counter was then seen to animatedly jump around from seat to seat until it came to rest on one in particular who became the winner.

Another game involved paper planes which were thrown from the
projectionist booth window in the pitch black, with the winners being
whoever caught/captured one. This would probably have been prohibited on health & safety grounds if the Ritzy knew what we were up to...

So the formal aspect of mainstream cinema, in which the audience does not talk amongst itself and is constrained by fixed seating, was broken down to some extent. There were seven or eight of these shows between 7th March 1996 and the 26th September 1996.   More information

 

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