Cinema Impero in Asmara,Eritrea
The Cinema Impero (lit. Empire Cinema) is an Art Deco-style cinema in Asmara, the capital of Eritrea[1]. It was built in 1937 by the colonial authorities in Italian Eritrea.
Cinema Impero was the largest movie theater constructed in Asmara during the last period of the Italian colony of Eritrea. It was named after the conquest of Ethiopia by Benito Mussolini and his proclamation of the Italian Empire.
The building still houses a cinema today, and it is considered by the experts one of the world's finest examples of Art Déco style building.[2]
Cinema Impero is still structurally sound after 70 years, escaping damage during the several conflicts that have affected the Horn of Africa over the past century.
It is a tourist attraction in modern Asmara – along with the famous Fiat Tagliero Building and some other Italian-period structures of colonial Eritrea (including the Presidential Palace and the City Hall) – that have made Asmara a World Heritage site by the UNESCO in 2017[3].
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The Cinema Impero is an Art Deco-style cinema in Asmara, the capital of Eritrea.It was built in 1937 by the colonial authorities in Italian Eritrea.
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Eritrea capital Asmara makes World Heritage list in colonial architecture
Eritrea capital Asmara makes World Heritage list in colonial architecture
Architecture from the colonial era left an exceptional example of modernism, judges say.Odeon cinema facade in Asmara, EritreaAFP
The UN cultural agency Unesco has added Asmara, the capital of Eritrea, to its list of World Heritage sites. The country still holds many well-preserved modernist buildings from the time when it was ruled by Italy (1889-1941).bowling alley with coloured glass windows and a huge skittle on the outsideAFP
Unesco said Asmara was an exceptional example of early modernist urbanism at the beginning of the 20th century and its application in an African context. This bowling alley was built in the era in an art deco style.
man taking bowling ball from queue in an art deco bowling alleyAFP
Eritrean authorities declared the city a national monument in 2001, and had been attempting for years to gain recognition for its architectural heritage.
close up of bowling ballsAFP
More than 400 modernist buildings survive, having lived through a decades-long conflict with Ethiopia.
Fiat Tagliero, garage shaped like an aeroplaneAFP
Famous among them is the Fiat Tiaglero building, a petrol station shaped as an aeroplane. Built in 1938, it now stands empty.
The garage in use, with Shell petrol station signs outside and people standing talkingSTEVE FORREST/ GETTY IMAGES
The garage, which was still in use when this photograph was taken in 1999, is a prime example of how European architects would go to the city to develop work deemed too wacky in their home countries.
Art deco cinema exteriorAFP
The Cinema Impero, completed in 1937, still holds screenings for thousands of Eritrean cinemagoers. The country's representative to Unesco, Hanna Simon, said the announcement filled the city with tremendous pride and joy but also with a profound sense of responsibility and duty.
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Eritrea's silver screen success
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ASMARA -- In the flickering light of Asmara's Impero Cinema, Eritreans sit gripped by a tale of brave soldiers risking all in love and war.
Eritrea's young film industry is booming. Only 14 years after the Horn of Africa country acquired its independence from Ethiopia, some 60 new films are released every year in the nation's main Tigrinya language.
There is a new film shown in the cinema almost every week, said Franco Sardella, an accomplished cinematographic director who shot Eritrea's first feature film in 1997. More and more people are enjoying these films.
Over 140,000 tickets were sold for Franco's film - the epic Barud '77 - which, like many Eritrean movies, tells a brutally realistic tale of defiant rebels resisting foreign domination, a favorite theme in a country still attached to its warring past.
The popularity of the country's own films has only grown since then.
Eritrea discovered film while an Italian colony, and Asmara's imposing modernist theaters still sport the posters of 1950s Italian and American cinema. But it was during the 30-year liberation war against arch-foe Ethiopia that Eritrean cinema found its own voice.
Rebels encouraged artistic education and engaged in meticulous documentation - on video - of every aspect of life at the front.
Actors would perform plays for the people and combatants, said ex-fighter Esaias Tsegay, a respected director and poet who became a leading member of the fighters' cultural office after he was wounded. It was meant to agitate people to fight for the liberation of Eritrea.
Later, those dramas were then filmed - first on stage, then on actual battlefield locations - to increase access for a scattered audience fighting a bitter guerrilla war.
The early films were really stage plays documented by cameras, Esaias said. But given time, that changed and people began to know what cinema is.
With liberation in 1991, Eritrean cinema grew alongside efforts to re-develop the war-shattered nation.
We wanted to contribute to the reconstruction of the country, said Franco, who helped establish Eritrea's main independent film production company after independence. Reconstruction is not only about rebuilding, it is also about culture, arts and films, he added.
However, it was the return to war with Ethiopia in the bloody 1998-2000 border conflict that shifted the focus from stage drama to film.
We were all involved in the fighting, so it was not possible to do much theater, said Efriem Kahsay, a director of 10 films.?Actors visiting Asmara would be grabbed by a director before they returned to the trenches.
With major projects costing up to 300,000 nakfa ($30,000), Eritrean film budgets are dwarfed by Hollywood or even their African cousins in Nollywood, Nigeria's prolific film industry.
Yet the sums involved are serious cash for this small nation of 4.9 million people.
And despite fierce competition from foreign films - cheap to screen and with expensive special effects impossible in Eritrea - ticket sales cover most costs, with sales of up to 1,000 DVDs to the Eritrean diaspora boosting profits for successful films.
Unlike many films in Africa, our films are done without any international backing, Franco said proudly, echoing the national passion for self-reliance.
Standards remain low - with only around five films a year of professional quality - but filmmakers are working hard to raise standards.
As far as cinematography and motion pictures are concerned we are still at the start, Esaias admitted. But we are learning and becoming more experienced all the time in techniques, acting, and characterization.
With an ongoing tense border stalemate with Ethiopia, war remains a major inspiration for filmmakers.
My whole life went to the war - I was there for 14 [to] 15 years - so I can't think of a theme which is prior to this reality, Esaias said.
Many scripts are stifled by strict government censors, but directors expect broader themes to develop as the industry matures, and remain hopeful for its development.
They are also making love stories now ... and that is natural - if there is peace, you don't expect to have so many war films, Esaias added. I see a bright future for Eritrean cinema.
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