On a sunny day at the very beginning of this millenniums a Frenchman found himself in the desert of Sinai.
[H]e wondered – how come that there are no cinemas in the middle of the desert?
He flew back to Paris and arranged some money. After that he went to Cairo to buy original old seats and projection equipment from an old cinema theatre. Then [he] came back to Sinai, arranged generator for electricity a monstrous tractor to pull up the screen that was like a gigantic sail.
At the premier evening everything went wrong, their electricity generator was sabotaged and no movies were ever screened at the End of the World Cinema.
Maps via Google Maps and annotated by Metro.
Via photographer Kaupo Kikkas.
Perhaps one day we can resurrect his vision??
Would be interesting to see someone try. Reminds me a bit of the “Victorian Follies” in the jungles of Central and South America.