Did you know that there is an abandoned movie theater in the middle of a desert in Egypt?
Lovers of the seventh art will have faniquitos to know this cinema completely out of any standard of the rooms that we all frequent. During a trip to Egypt, Estonian photographer Kaupo Kikkas produced amazing images depicting an end-of-world-looking movie theater.
The outdoor lounge is located on the Sinai Peninsula, at the foot of a desert mountain. The place is full of chairs in front of a screen that looks like a sailing ship, as you can see in the images below.
According to the photographer himself, in information published on his website, the open-air cinema in the middle of the desert is not a very old building, and the person responsible for it is a man from France who had big plans with the site. The seats and a generator were transported from Cairo.
Everything went as the Frenchman had planned, except for one small - but no - detail: the residents of the surrounding areas disliked the idea and decided to sabotage the generator. The project never even featured a movie, and the movie theater is just a gathering of chairs in the middle of the desert. What a pity! If you want to explore the region with the help of Google Maps, have fun!
1 - From above
2 - Accommodations
3 - Environment
4 - Details
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Bonus: We have cited cinema as the seventh art, and you have probably heard that name other times, haven't you? If you are a self-respecting curious, you may have wondered what the other six arts are after all. So, come on:
- 1st art: music;
- 2nd art: dance and choreography;
- 3rd art: painting;
- 4th art: sculpture and architecture;
- 5th art: theater;
- 6th art: literature.
Each one of them was classified according to the main element that characterizes it as language, and, in order from 1st to 6th, they are there because they represent sound, movement, color, volume, representation and word. respectively.
* Originally posted on 10/03/14
