Built in 1964 and finally closed in 1999, the Kosmos cinema of Plovdiv was for a period the biggest cinema theater in Bulgaria. It has seen 35 years of movie screening, of which 25 years during the communist period. Drawn by the architect Lyubomir Shinkov, the building is massive and shows a certain idea of the future as it was seen in this period, and contributes to a reflection on a history of the image – politic and social-  before and after the fall. 

The color of the cosmos is a quest. A quest through the building and the idea and ideology of the notion of “cosmos”. After questioning some habitants of the city and making a research in the building, Maxime Bondu is traveling through images of the cosmos. Almost like a quest for the invisible, traces are however to be found in some pieces of ceiling paint fallen on the floor, in spiderwebs found in the basements, in an old stained movie program poster or in the deduction of the persistent color from the screen. To deduce this persistent color of the screen, he has set up a collaboration with a programmer, Julien Griffit, with whom he worked previously, to analyze the movies screened. After two weeks of calculations, a powerful server computer wrote down “#282320”, a hexadecimal code for a color. A color that also is difficult to project because of its dark shade.