Unit photography by Mary Cybulski, courtesy of TriStar Pictures and Sony Pictures. Opposite and this page, top: Billy Lynn (Joe Alwyn) and his fellow Bravo Company soldiers are sent on a publicrelations tour to celebrate their heroism and defend the Iraq War in the 3D feature Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk. Middle: Cinematographer John Toll, ASC (left) supervises a shot at the start of the halftime show. Bottom: Director Ang Lee (right) works with the cast on the halftimeshow stage. brated and sent on a public-relations tour to defend the war, culminating in a football halftime show, alongside the Alabama State marching band and a concert by Destiny's Child. The sequence we saw intercuts this spectacular show with Lynn's flashback to his fateful wartime experience. The IBC screening reminded me of reports of early cinema projections by the Lumière brothers in Paris in the 1890s - when an audience watching footage of a train coming into a station is said to have ducked. I didn't duck, but the screening experience was unlike anything I'd seen before. It was at once lifelike and dazzling, visceral yet very natural. The event was enabled by technology used at a similar screening at NAB and at the New York Film Festival: two Christie Mirage 4KLH laser projectors, along with two highspeed Infinity Delta Media Servers from 7thSense Design - one for each eye - and Dolby 6P technology and glasses. The screening experience is above all a personal one; you have to see a similar screening for yourself to really appreciate its impact. My immediate experience was one of incredible clarity, and I knew instantly I was seeing somewww.theasc.com December 2016 35http://www.theasc.com