At the European Heritage Days in Gent, Lies Van de Vijver gave a lecture on the history of the building of cinema Rex, its programmed films and its recorded memories based on the ECA research. The sold out 30′ lecture was in collaboration with our Cultural partner Film Fest Gent and sold out to 250 people. FilmFest Gent organised on-site registration of new memories of cinemagoing in Ghent and Rex. The lecture is accompanied by a 20′ documentary with the ECA interviews as testimonies of the history of cinema in Gent which will show in loop each Sunday of September 2024. It was viewed by 600 people on September 1 and 1800 people on September 8.
