Mexico. The Christie CP4230 projector had a starring role in the retrospective that the Cineteca Nacional de México dedicated to the American filmmaker Wes Anderson with the screening of his complete filmography. The team, installed in Room 1, has been in charge of the screening of Isle of Dogs (2018) that inaugurated the cycle.
The Cineteca Nacional, inaugurated in 1974, is an institution dedicated to the preservation, cataloguing, exhibition and dissemination of cinema in Mexico. It has an area of 29,000 square meters and has 10 rooms and an outdoor forum visited by more than one million people a year.
The institution acquired at the time the aforementioned 4K projector (4096 x 2160 pixels) of digital cinema Christie CP4230 for its largest room, which has a screen of 11.6 x 6 meters and capacity for 360 people.
The engineer Víctor Flores Rodríguez, technical manager of the Cineteca, explained the reasons for the choice of this projector: "Due to its native 4K resolution technology, the Christie CP4230 allows us to exhibit all the current contents of digital cinema. We are also inspired by the confidence of a leading brand that is widely used in commercial and, as in our case, cultural film exhibitions."
Room 1 where the Christie CP4230 is installed is used to project various cycles of cultural cinema, both national and international, as well as for cultural and multimedia events. A good part of the films that are exhibited in this room have been restored and converted to 4K format by the Digital Restoration Laboratory of the Cineteca.
Ernesto Armus, director of Christie in Mexico, is delighted that an entity of the prestige of the Cineteca Nacional has in its main room a Christie film projector: "We are very pleased that the audience of the Cineteca Nacional can enjoy the highest quality of projection of a director of the stature of Wes Anderson and all the cycles that this entity offers in its star room".
