Interactive Cinema

Interactive cinema tries to give the audience an active role in the showing of movies. The movie Kinoautomat by Czechoslovakian director Raduz Cincera presented in the Czech Pavilion in Expo '67 in Montreal is considered to be the first cinema-like interactive movie. The availability of computers for the display of interactive video has made it easier to create interactive movies. (wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinoautomat)

Below is a clip taken from the Kinoautomat film.



The concept behind this film was that, you push the button, which allowed you choose the action. The idea was that this was the only choice they could allow to make freely in communist Czechoslovakia. In 1972, less than a year, the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia banned the film.

Below is another form of interactive cinema whereby the users interact with the screen using motion sensor technology. They do this by waving their hands, or moving their body. The direction of the movement is detected and recorded by the motion sensor on the back of the seat.



As you can see, this creates a fun and immersive experience for the users. The example shown just shows a simple car driving down the road. In my implementation I will be integrating the technology with a narrative to create an immersive learning experience.

Below is another example of this technology being used in the cinema environment.



One of the things, that I really about this concept was the amount of people involved in the experience. This goes to show that this form of interactivity doesn’t have to be limited to small numbers of people.