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When I heard Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey would be screening on film at the IMAX, I knew I had to see it.

I grew up watching movies on 35mm at the Cinema Twin in Swift Current, but it wasn’t until the medium was being phased out that I developed an attachment to it.

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During my time at university, a professor of mine brought in a 16mm print of Michael Snow’s Wavelength. The film amounts to a 45-minute long zoom onto a photograph hanging on an apartment wall, but I was transfixed.

I love the colours, the mystery, the chemical wizardry. Digital is a marvel, but it’s colder somehow — more the victory of machines than men.

After I took in Kubrick’s epic on glorious 15/70mm film, I raced up to the viewing window behind the projection room to catch a glimpse of of the theatre’s giant heart and the rare celluloid that flows through its veins.

I had to get inside that projection room, somehow. I had to show people.