Dalí becomes virtual host of the innovative AV creation in the 40 anniversary of the Theater-Museum of Figueras

The night of the next 28 September, the Dalí Museum-Theater will open its doors to commemorate (such day of the year 1974) its fortieth anniversary and receive its visitors with a unique and very special host: a virtual recreation of Dalí will show six different spaces in an innovative audiovisual creation or “theatrical dream”.

Located in the Girona town of Figueras, the Dalí Theater Museum will celebrate the next 28 September its fortieth anniversary dedicated to the work of the great artist with an innovative event held specifically for the occasion, in which audiovisual and projection technology will be the means for a virtual recreation of Salvador Dalí himself to host this commemoration.

Since the 22:00 hours and until one in the morning, The museum will hold an open night for all those who want to enjoy the audiovisual show 'Un somni theatrical' (a theatrical dream), fruit of laborious research to search for archival images from the 1990s 40, both nationally and internationally.

National and international collaboration project

Collaboration has been essential to achieve this and the images have been provided by state archives such as the Spanish Film Archive (NO-DO) and RTVE, as well as by the Institut National de l’Audiovisuel (WHEN); Instituto Cinecittà Luce de Rome, Harry Ransom Center, ITN, The Andy Warhol Museum o Disney, among other institutions.

The contents for this visual spectacle, made by screenwriter and film director David Pujol, They also arise from the collaboration with Montse Aguer, director of the Center

of Dalinian Studies, and Lluís Peñuelas, General Secretary of the Dalí Foundation. With the executive production of Iván Carrero and the editing of Jordi Muñoz and David Pujol.

Projection on walls and on the dome

The producer Doc Doc Films, specialized in the production of biographical and audiovisual documentaries, has been in charge of the realization and production of 'Un somni theatrical', under the direction of David Pujol, with the technical coordination of Stone Event.

For this, six HDF W26 model projectors from the Belgian firm are used. Barco, with a lighting power of 26.000 lumens each and three-chip DLP technology, and Folsom Encore multi-screen control system from this same supplier, as well as DLP projector 7.000 lumens of Panasonic (PT model 7700), all managed through Catalyst, with OPS players 300 of Analog Way and a Spyder Full HD processor Christie.

The walls, windows and the geodesic dome of the Dalí Theatre-Museum will be the screens on which this audiovisual creation will be projected in six different spaces. Visitors and admirers of Dalí's work will enter in strict order of arrival and that is when a virtual Dalí will invite them to delve into the most intimate interior of his art and they will tour the museum following half a dozen films lasting about seven minutes each..

Images, words, works and music about the genius of Figueras will follow one another in this unique audiovisual tour, in which the artist plays and connects with the public by welcoming them and presenting the museum, which he defined as “the spiritual center of Europe”, his work and his most histrionic side.