As Nolan Intended — Christopher Nolan on the wrong screens
Every screen but the right one66 sightings on record<br>Christopher Nolan shot it on 70mm. These people did not watch it that way.<br>A Game Boy. A kitchen scale. An oscilloscope. One actual cow. Nobody made them do any of this.
Printer / paperImprovised projectorWatchHandheld consoleKitchen appliancePublic / street screenCalculatorMP3 playerCamera displayFront row, too closeDesk peripheralAirplane seatbackTiny TVPhoneE-readerDIY electronicsLab instrumentVehicle screenOld monitorVirtual / in-gameSpreadsheet / software
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VideoPrinter / paper<br>The Odyssey
Printed one frame at a time on a thermal receipt printer, each sheet numbered like a real reel. Thermal paper fades within months.<br>@filippocavallaroInstagram<br>▲1
VideoPrinter / paper<br>The Odyssey
We've got the receipts!<br>@kele.zeroTikTok<br>▲1
VideoImprovised projector<br>The Odyssey
Projected onto a single grain of rice, ruler in frame for proof. Filed by the artist under 7mm.<br>DIY electronics<br>@jordan.gladmanInstagram<br>▲1
VideoWatch<br>The Odyssey
An Apple Watch at full brightness in a dark room. Forty-odd millimetres of screen, and a wrist that now has to stay perfectly still.<br>@captain__cowInstagram<br>▲0
VideoHandheld console<br>The Odyssey
A Game Boy Advance SP, lid up. The bedsheet behind it is the biggest screen in the photo and nobody thought to use it.<br>@vproflowerboyInstagram<br>▲0
VideoKitchen appliance<br>The Odyssey
An eta kitchen scale, max 5 kg. The carrot is there for scale. It is also the only object in the photo with any resolution.<br>@motion_ondraInstagram<br>▲0
VideoWatch<br>The Odyssey
Odysseus on the prow of his ship, at 44mm. The ship is roughly one pixel wide and the sea is the other one.<br>@relaxingrealityInstagram<br>▲0
VideoPublic / street screen<br>The Odyssey
A pharmacy cross in Milan, in green LED dot matrix. The one screen on the street that legally cannot be switched off.<br>@mariomacca.designInstagram<br>▲0
VideoCalculator<br>The Odyssey
The colour screen of a NumWorks graphing calculator. Designed for quadratics, currently doing its absolute best.<br>@nonolabriquetteTikTok<br>▲0
VideoWatch<br>The Odyssey
Everyone else queued for 70mm. This one went with an Apple Watch propped on a tracksuit knee, which at least had no queue.<br>@gettishowInstagram<br>▲0
MP3 player<br>The Odyssey
An iPod Nano, held over a wooden floor. Two inches of screen, and not a pair of headphones anywhere in shot.<br>@tomkiely__Threads<br>▲0
VideoCamera display<br>The Odyssey
The 1.8-inch rear LCD of a Canon EOS D30 from the year 2000. Frame 91 of 321, advanced by hand, like a very slow flipbook.<br>@shuttarioInstagram<br>▲0
Handheld console<br>The Odyssey
A PS Vita, flat on a table. Five inches of OLED, which by the standards of this gallery is showing off.<br>@es08_o101Threads<br>▲0
Front row, too close<br>The Odyssey
Three faces cropped to a helmet, a cheek and one eye. At this distance the film is happening to you rather than in front of you.<br>@thinkofmercyX<br>▲0
VideoDesk peripheral<br>The Odyssey
An Elgato Stream Deck. Fifteen separate LCD keys, so the frame arrives in fifteen pieces with the plastic showing between them.<br>@metalforbreakfastInstagram<br>▲0
Public / street screen<br>The Odyssey
A screening room so long and narrow the screen sits at the far end like a porthole. Technically a cinema. Structurally a corridor.<br>u/CBGD78Reddit<br>▲0
Airplane seatback<br>Oppenheimer
Oppenheimer on an airplane seatback, safety card still tucked in below. Cabin screens are colour-calibrated for nothing at all.<br>@reckless1280Threads<br>▲0
Front row, too close<br>Oppenheimer
Two faces filling the entire frame, nose to chin. Row one, where you paid extra in order to see less of the film.<br>@ifeypeterThreads<br>▲0
Tiny TV<br>Interstellar
A small flatscreen marooned near the ceiling of an otherwise completely empty wall. Missed out on IMAX, went for the exact opposite.<br>u/ChiefLeef22Reddit<br>▲0
VideoPublic / street screen<br>The Odyssey
A gate intercom in Miami. The screen was built to display a four-digit door code and is being asked to do Homer instead.<br>@metalforbreakfastInstagram<br>▲0
Phone<br>The Odyssey
A second, smaller phone held up in front of the first. Subway Surfers behind, The Odyssey in front, neither of them winning.<br>u/cava98andreaReddit<br>▲0
VideoE-reader<br>The Odyssey
A Kobo, page-turn buttons and all. Colour e-ink is a genuine achievement, and still entirely the wrong tool for this.<br>@reubenmadeTikTok<br>▲0
E-reader<br>The Odyssey
A Kindle. E-ink repaints roughly once a second, so this is less a screening and more a very committed slideshow.<br>@alex.hinzThreads<br>▲0
Airplane seatback<br>Oppenheimer
A seatback screen, with the Spanish lifejacket notice for company. Somewhere over the Atlantic, at a confident 480p.<br>u/eMatt5Reddit<br>▲0
Public / street screen<br>Interstellar
Interstellar on a 24-inch TV bolted to the wall of a Mexican tyre shop, among the pinned-up receipts and the hanging...