The cinema that's always deserted: Egypt's eerie End of the World movie theatre that has never shown a film.
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| photo credit Noha Zayed |
Sitting in the middle of a vast desert, an eerie abandoned cinema lies waiting for its first movie to be screened.
The site is accessible by just one road - called Dusti Road - and few people ever go there.
Now the 150 wooden seats are weathered and worn by the apocalyptic surroundings, and remain empty. The screen's foundations stand broken and the building housing the generator and projector has been left crumbling.
According to Kaupo Kikkas, the Estonian photographer who took these shots, the End of the World Cinema was built by a wealthy Frenchman who decided it would be the perfect location for a bizarre cinema.
He went to Cairo to buy everything he needed from an old theatre.
However things didn't exactly go according to plan. On the night of the premiere the generator powering its grand debut cut out.
Apparently, the local authorities weren't very excited about the idea of having a theatre in the middle of the desert, and it is suspected that they might have had something to do with the premiere's incidents.
