It's no surprise that the more avid of us, perched in our pews beneath the projector's beam, should greet it as an Annunciation: I would look at that light as a pious boy might react to a shaft of sunlight in a cathedral.
Every cinéaste is also a nostalgist however primed for the next big thing, you cannot help but compare it with the Arcadia of your early days beneath the projector's beam, and to the mistier glories of cinema's own youth and Haneke is no exception.
Not far away, back through a Spanish archway, a 16-millimeter projector rattles with a persistent click that never quite disappears beneath the bleating of the soundtrack, like static on a short-wave radio.
Beneath the halo of the ceiling-mounted video projector in his basement screening room, Ron Howard sprawled across an upholstered seat in the front row and absent-mindedly stroked his chin as the rippling glare of the movie played over his upturned face.
For an image offset of 140%, position the center of the projector's lens no more than 40% of the screen's height beneath or above the screen.
Bell & Howell 8-mm movie projector.
(Glass has one projector).
I loved threading that projector".
