Throughout the festival, the silent screenings were among the most popular events, with queues forming outside the screening rooms even for obscure titles.
Outside the screening rooms delegates queue, drenched.
Outside the screening rooms, there were lightning flashes and ominous rumbles.
In the large open plan office outside the screening room, there is a display of ideas for new products.
Half an hour before the film began, Stephenson sat on a bench outside the screening room, typing into his Sidekick.
These are movies not on the original schedule that pop up by surprise, their presence announced on slips of paper that appear outside the screening locations each morning.
Before the film began, they gathered outside the screening room for wine and sandwiches, trading E-mail addresses, lunch promises, and bits of Vietnam-alumni gossip.
Back outside the screening area, a news anchor was doing a breathless live stand-up: "... the controversy of tough new screening procedures... ...... she intoned.
To get into the security area, you must have it all in one, which creates a human traffic jam outside the screening area as people madly try to cram laptops into handbags or handbags into laptop carriers.
Andrade's camerawork is calm and unaffected, his lens ever so grainy — the writing on the wall outside the screening room tells us that it is meant to mimic (and perhaps gently to mock) the placid, exoticizing style of ethnographic documentary, and that the intimate gesture between man and dying fish is an invention of the artist.
Things have often got loud, and never more so than at outside the screening of one of the festival's stranger pleasures.
