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# Summary
The **Astral Cinema** is a proposed project to establish a community cinema in the UK, combining high-quality technical equipment with a collaborative, community-minded approach. The initial plan involves purchasing a high-end digital projector and setting up a cinema that can screen a variety of films.
The project also includes the possibility of setting up a mobile, solar-powered cinema that can be taken to a variety of locations, such as festivals and cafés. This initiative would also involve a crowdfunding campaign and the formation of a legal structure to allow community members to buy shares in the project.
Additionally, the **Astral Cinema** aims to specialize in AI-related themes, exploring the use of AI in generating video content and animations. This aspect of the project would involve organizing a series of hackathons on topics such as script writing, filmmaking, video mixing, artificial intelligence, visual animation, and 3D generating.
The project’s creators envision this as a model that could be replicated by others interested in running their own community cinemas.
# Tidied Transcript
The Astral Cinema is a two-tiered project, with a pragmatic approach that I believe we should implement by April, on a Thursday, and a more inspirational, visionary aspect. The pragmatic approach involves the UK law legislation, which provides a pathway for licensing a community cinema. A few years ago, I found out that for under £5000, you could purchase a high-end digital projector and pay it off over three years. This could be a £15,000 projector or a £5000 projector, both of which are of excellent quality. Initially, we can use the existing projectors. I can provide a couple of projectors and a screen. I will also be shipping the cameras and equipment I currently have in Lisbon. They will arrive in February, providing us with additional cameras and digital mixers. We also have an existing projector, which performs well. With a combination of these projectors, a good quality screen, decent audio, and other equipment, we can establish a cinema. We could consider a crowdfunding campaign and operate the cinema as part of the Astroship. We can host our internal voyage-based screenings and potentially conduct a community screening at the Astroship once a month. We could start with a Civil War film in May. We are not permitted to charge for these screenings, but we can run a community organisation and a crowdfunding campaign, which we own. It will be legally based at the Astroship, but practically, we can run it as a touring, mobile cinema powered by batteries or solar energy. This cinema can travel to festivals, cafes, and other locations. We can collaborate with local organisations for the community cinema, hosting screenings at the Cafe Caban and other places. The other aspect of the Astral Cinema is its alternative name, the Artificial Cinema. This specialises in the AI hacker theme, using AI to generate videos and animations. We can use our DIY objects to create short films and screen films on the theme of artificial intelligence, exploring the difference between reality and virtual astral elements. We could potentially have AI as the first year's theme. We should also conduct a series of hackathons focused on creative script writing, filmmaking, video mixing, artificial intelligence, soundtrack, visual animation, and 3D generating. This aligns with the concept of the Astral Cinema or Artificial Cinema, and it's crucial for recording and shooting. We should launch a community project on Earth Day and crowdfund for it, using the legal structure we've discussed. Community members can offer community shares, and they should be made aware of the return on their investment. We aim to create a business model for this project and offer it to the world as a model for operating a local community cinema. That is the Astral Cinema concept.
# Keywords Astro-cinema, community cinema, UK, high-end digital projector, mobile cinema, solar-powered cinema, crowdfunding, legal structure, community shares, AI-related themes, hackathons, community model
# Translations
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http://transcript.thought.garden/assets/astral-cinema/astral-cinema-Estonian.mp3 Astral Cinema in Estonian
http://transcript.thought.garden/assets/astral-cinema/astral-cinema-German.mp3 Astral Cinema in German
http://transcript.thought.garden/assets/astral-cinema/astral-cinema-French.mp3 Astral Cinema in French
http://transcript.thought.garden/assets/astral-cinema/astral-cinema-Welsh.mp3 Astral Cinema in Welsh
# Graph
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# Assets
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# See also - Astral Thoughts