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Secret Cinema held it’s latest event over the weekend and was perhaps the best kept secret of the year.
Keeping fanatics of film guessing right up until the last minute, rumours we’re rife as Secret Cinema staged it’s biggest event yet and put on a show that makes going to the Odeon seem like a trip to Blockbusters.
After weeks of speculation and clues via Facebook, email and even staged rescues in disclosed London locations,15,000 fans of the silver screen made the journey, in full Bedouin attire, to Alexandra Palace.
Delving right into the fantasy from the get-go, the tribes embarked on the Road to Damascus and assembled in Alexandra Park before being escorted to the promise land by tribal leaders.
When the order was given the tribes marched as one to the spectacular Alexandra Palace where they were greeted with an exotic market filled with the sights, sounds and smells of Arabia.
A spellbinding setting like Alexandra Palace could only play host to an icon of cinema and none fit the bill more than the epic classic, Lawrence of Arabia.
Before the tribes sat to enjoy the film Lawrence himself road in on a camel and gave a stirring speech to unite the excitable Beduoin tribes settling them on rugs, pillows and one or two blow up lilos to watch David Lean’s classic.
Founder and Creative Directors Fabien Riggall, dedicated the event to ‘the British filmmakers working today to further David Lean’s vision and bring back the sense of scale and risk to their craft’.
With draping canopies, eager shopkeepers hawking exotic foods, artisan crafts, and even insects, henna artists and clairvoyants grabbing at hands, and bordering it all an entire sand-filled desert oasis, audiences were catapulted into the world of Lawrence of Arabia and it’s safe to say this is going to be pretty tough to beat, but we can’t wait to see what they will dream up next