Prehistoric man went to the open air cinema

Presenting the rock-art of Valcamonica in the new context with modern technology, in terms of “Ambient Cinema” and modern modes of performance.
This will concentrate on making the results and insights gained by the research visible to publics across Europe. In concrete terms this means the creation of an Ambient Cinema film that will premiere at MAA Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge in the summer 2010. Ambient Cinema is a immersive surround experience developed by Frederick Baker, in which the audience are placed in the centre of a film which surrounds and passes over them.

The 15 film will have 3 levels:

the work of the archaeologists and film makers working on location in the present.

the prehistoric period in which the art was created

a freely interpreted artistic interpretation of the art as a precursor of modern-day graffiti and video art.

The exhibition will have a formal public and press opening in Cambridge in July 2010 to which all project partners and their organisations are welcome.

A shortened version of this ambient film will be installed in the Klangturm in St Pölten in the summer of 2010. The subject of the work will be “aliens from the past and present and future”. The soundtrack will be provided by Astrid Drechsler’s and Christopher Well’s archae-oacoustics.
Other levels of re-presentation will be developed – ranging from academic papers, photographic exhibitions;, audio CDs, and specially created performative events like dance and “projectionism”. Frederick Baker proposes to use the projectionist technique developed for his re-making of the classic film The Third Man to take the images shot in the first phases will be projected back onto their original locations in a performative projectionist work. This work will then be taken into an arts and club context.

Considering that a typical day was 12 hours without electricity I doubt there was much luxury in those days. Food could not be stored either.