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Sunday Focus: Quebec’s Image Mill
The 400th anniversary celebrations taking part in Quebec city are full of new and exciting exhibitions, including the biggest outdoor screen in the world.
The Image Mill came alive last Friday night, giving a whole new perspective to the capital city. The screen is really a grain terminal that is 30 meters tall and 600 meters wide. The people who spent three years building the project know how big that is.
“The ideas and the people that built the city of Quebec is way bigger than just the size of that building,” said Philippe Meunier of Ex Machina Production Crew.
Still it is hard to forget the size of the project. The sound in 300 speakers has to be broadcast two seconds ahead of the images so the two are in sync.
It’s an impressionistic tour of the 400 years of the city’s history from the foundation, the first fort, through the invention of radio, to Lindbergh in Quebec, the city’s long religious heritage, snapshots and sound that remind us of a decade or an event.
“It’s the most beautiful show I’ve ever seen and I’ve travelled the world,” said one tourist.
“It was fantastic, I think it was fantastic,” said another.
The show is almost too much to take in so people say they will be back and bring friends. The Image Mill plays every evening until August 24.
