We have a calendar year, a financial year, and a year of the monkey. Why not a Hobbit year? The Kinomatics project has been rethinking the use of the calendar year for the study of film exhibition. The calendar year has its benefits. It is easily justifiable, it fits with most other forms of data […]
There are two ways of considering the flow of film exhibition: geographically and temporally. The following two visualisations of the film “Anna Karenina” which showed towards the end of 2012 through to mid-2013 illustrates geographic as well as temporal movement. Geographic The world map above shows the mean centre of screenings for Anna Karenina for […]
Created using TileMill – this visualisation shows the location of all cinema venues that make up our screenings database. Spanning 48 countries we collect data from over 29,000 venues.
A map of all cinema venues in our Global Movie Screenings database. The light green points are single screen venues whilst the dark green points are multiple screen venues (two screens or greater). You can see that there is still a strong presence of single screen cinema venues around the world. This visualisation is produced […]
This map is a Cartogram of the number of screens for all venues within our Global Movie Screenings database aggregated to a country level scale. Cartograms don’t use the value of area to depict the area of each feature (in this case country). Instead, they use other attributes to dictate the size of the feature. […]
