Earth Cinema is a cut excavated into the earth (45 m long), which people can enter from both sides. Inside, a long slit allows one to "see" the landscape, feeling part of it. It is a narrow passage at the bottom, just 7 m wide, where Kapoor invites us to rediscover a sound, an echo of Mother Earth, to find an image on the screen placed in the center of the slit's side, where no moving figures appear, but reflections, shadows of the overlying vegetation. The work opens a new artistic viewpoint on the territory, inviting the spectator to observe it from within. «It's a work that has an architectural scale and requires a kind of physical response; it's not just made to be looked at but is an experience you live… The idea is that of the interior of the earth, of a cave… somehow you know it's not a natural cave but a kind of man-made cavity… there's a dialogue between culture and nature.»
