Grand Cinema Digiplex, Bucharest, Romania

Retro lightbulbs with a modern twist.

The Project Brief

Fibre Optic Lighting international were commisioned to provide unique lighting effects to two main areas in this Romanian cinema complex; the main entrance foyer and the area above the cash kiosks on the lower ground floor.

We were required to keep to the theme of 'movies' so the idea of using standard lightbulb shapes, which were popular in the classic days of cinema, was suggested.

The ceiling in each area was fitted with glass cracked light bulbs which were in two sizes (60mm and 100mm). Each bulb had it own 3.1mm PMMA fibre optic tail to make it look like the filament in standard light bulbs.

A total of eleven 150W metal halide DMX light sources allowed full control of the lighting effects throughout both areas. This allowed us the opportunity to run a sequence of green and blue colours through both foyer areas.