We are honored and proud to announce that Akram Miknas the owner of our museum has been awarded the Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Patrons of Arts Award for his on-going support and commitment to the museum of moving image and Dubai art scene. Akram Miknas will receive this recognition on May 13, 2013
Enas who accompanied us for 4 months during the setting up period has now moved to new projects and we are pleased to welcome Mandy who will be in charge of the day to day running as well as the development of the museum.
Mandy holds a Master’s degree in Art History from the City University of New York–Brooklyn
College and has found her dream job here in Dubai, we wish her great success with this very exciting project.
The Moving Image Museum has had the pleasure of welcoming Gulf Film Festival delegates. Participants from all over the globe came to tour and experience our rich collection of pre-cinema history. It was a wonderful experience speaking with international film makers, professors, directors, photographers, and film students about our collection. The delegates enjoyed hearing about the prehistory of their industry and had lots of fun interacting with our exhibits.
This year’s is the sixth annual Gulf Film Festival, and it will be going on until the 17th of April in Festival City, Dubai. We are expecting more visits from delegates and we hope they’ll enjoy visiting our museum as much as we enjoyed setting it up!
We now have an outside sign, the museum is ready and we are waiting for a date for the official opening, in the meantime anyone interested can make an appointment to view via the contact found on our website dmimuseum.com
We are very pleased to be associated with the Gulf Film Festival in Dubai, we are looking forward to showing the festival delegates around our museum.
More info about the GFF on their site http://www.gulffilmfest.com
Ghosts and Spectres
Here is another interactive display, in 1864 J.H.Brown published a book called Spectropia, we have taken 4 of his prints to display here; By staring at one of the images for roughly 25″ without blinking and then looking away at the white screen on the wall the visitors will see the image of the spectres appear before them floating on the wall, this is due to an illusion called afterimage, a phenomenon where the image continues to appear in one’s vision after the exposure to the original image has ceased.
Here is the table in the third area of the museum where we have a number of reproduction optical toys for visitors to play with, we hope that a hands on approach will help visitors and particularly children to understand how the movement is created.
A very important item
This is the Lumiere Kinora, a clockwork flick viewer patented by the Lumiere brothers in 1896. The Lumiere brothers gave the first successful commercial screening of a movie and this item is an important link between all the optical toys exhibited in the museum and the Movies.
One of the highlight of the museum!
One of the most beautiful and one of the rarest 19th century toy magic lantern, the Lantern of the Orient or 1001 Nights, made in Germany around 1860.
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