INTERMISSION PICTURE MOVIE
INTERMISSION PICTURE SERIES

But then since it was planned as a four-hour, two-day TV Mini Series before they decided to show it in theaters. Gettysburg came with an intermission, at least when it was shown in a theater.When he promoted it on The Late Show With David Letterman, the clip he brought was from the intermission. Kenneth Branagh's film of Hamlet came with an intermission.(This places it earlier than the intermission in the stage version, in which the first act ends on a cliffhanger at the ball as Eliza seems about to be unmasked.) My Fair Lady has an intermission as Higgins, Pickering and Eliza leave for the ball where Eliza's upper-class guise will be tested.Ben-Hur (1959), which is conveniently split by the intermission between two DVDs.The Godfather Part II has an intermission, though Part I lacks one.It was intended to get audiences back into the story. The Godfather was going to have one taking place before the newspaper headline montage, which is why there was one in the first place.As almost all theatre productions involve intermissions, don't list one of them here unless it's particularly noteworthy. In other media, standards tend to be more lax. (And actors need bathroom breaks, too.) There also an economic benefit, as theatres can make some sales at the bar and/or snack food stands (but the food and drinks have to be consumed outside of the auditorium). Also, theatrical productions tend to be relatively long, and also tend to frown heavily on people leaving and returning during the performance, so intermissions are much more of a biological necessity. They provide a break to let the stage crew change the set around. In Theatre, intermissions are still standard practice. The practice is so ingrained to the point that Indian theaters often force intermissions to films imported overseas, including Hollywood flicks that run for no longer than two hours.

Notably, intermission is still standard practice in Bollywood, because Bollywood films have absurdly long running time by Hollywood standards (the average length is three hours), thanks to the existence of several lengthy musical numbers. Films are still the most common source outside of live theatre though, especially Epic Movies. We calculated that the audience for this project was likely over 400,000 viewers.These days, intermissions are far less common, but that hasn't stopped them from popping up in all sorts of media, including a few where they don't even seem to make sense, such as webcomics. The project was up for two months in each theater, during every intermission. With generous support from the Pasadena Art Alliance, they agreed to give us a chance with some seed funding. 11 years later, Sylvia Bowyer and I teamed up to do the project ourselves. I began applying for support from various nonprofit organizations and funders, and I think they were dubious that I could pull it off. This is one of those projects which took 13 years to get off the ground. See Project and Catalog Essays for more details. It is important that the work was not be a reproduction of other artwork created by the artist, but artwork created specially in slide form, and made specifically for this site. The artists’ slides were produced specifically for this site, taking into consideration the ads and trivia presented during intermission, and the context of a commercial movie theater space.

INTERMISSION PICTURE MOVIE

A site specific project of artist generated slides was projected in Pasadena and Los Angeles area movie theaters during intermission, between feature films,( in between those faded and badly designed popcorn and trivia slides).

Intermission picture