Real-time cinema are all about projection, but perhaps part of the reason visual work hasn’t become nearly as see-everywhere as music is that outdoor screens and projection are not so easy to trans than stereo system and narrator. And you can see, the ask of a really high-quality movable rig is obvious – peculiarly one that can act open air.

General Inflatables constructs movie screen inflatable international. It's Chinese factory, and already made a name for itself by supporting quantities of movie screen inflatable for like outdoor drive-in and picture fete open-air maskings. Its products have typically run at the cutting-edge.

There are two choices. First, there’s a complete “home backyard theater kit,” including:

• 9’ x 5’ movie screen inflatable
• Yard stakes and straps for setting it up (sand bags are optional)
• A Sanyo 2300-lumen LCD projector (not a bad model, in fact)
• DVD player
• Audio mixer, complete with A/V cables and adapters, with PA
• LED goose neck light
• Carrying cases
• Air blower with a muffler to keep the noise down (it was quiet from what I could tell, though we were in a loud space)

That’s for the home base user, so I suspect you’d have just as much luck putting together your own parts – and though the Sanyo projector is decent, you’d otherwise potentially be disappointed with some of what’s here. But here’s the interesting bit: you can get just the screen. And it’s ridiculously small and light; the whole 9’ screen packs into a tiny case you could pop into your backpack and weighs just eight pounds.

Even the full package I think is potentially good news for VJs, even indirectly – it’s just the kind of commoditization we’ve been waiting for for projection setups. Cheap + turn-key could mean more venues preparing for projection and working for visualists, and this is just one example.