Puck Cinema and other mobile cinemas in caravans

Charming caravans where you can enjoy, indoors, the best that (mobile) cinema has to offer.

A long weekend, a four-day weekend, a day off, a holiday... Any excuse is good to take a break from the routine and stop to watch the clouds, take a nap, sunbathe like a lizard, read a book or watch a film. Little more. Some dust off their bikes and others their caravans, authentic caravans.

Puck Cinema It is a caravan converted into a mobile cinema, with a capacity limited to seven people (or little people). It is, surely, the smallest cinema in the world. Puck screens animated films that are not usually seen on TV, with a programme selected with care and attention from all the world's offerings. An inexhaustible artistic background... The menu is varied but select, and aims to awaken a passion for animated film while reviving a way of experiencing cinema in a very special way, to enjoy for a few minutes indoors in a small and intimate space, of a great audiovisual work.

The people in charge of Puck Cinema are Toni Tomàs (executive management) and Carles Porta (programming and artistic direction) of Tombs Creatius, and they began their journey in the summer of 2009 in Lleida. Since then, they have travelled with their mobile cinema to Lugano, Alençon, Rochefort, Costa Rica...

Puck Cinema Caravana are not alone. There are several mobile cinemas around the world and they even have a foundation, the Mobile Cinema Foundation. Of all the countries, the UK seems to take the biscuit when it comes to mobile cinemas. During the 1960s, the English government put a fleet of seven caravans on the road, the Vintage Mobile Cinema, through English lands to promote national cinema. Of that fleet, only one remains today, with a capacity for 22 spectators.

Also in the UK we find The Sol Cinema, a mobile cinema equipped with meticulous attention to detail and powered by solar energy, with a seating capacity of eight.

And in Ireland we find the Pop-Up Cinemobile, perhaps not quite as charming, but with a capacity for whole families, the big ones.

After hipsterism making caravans so trendy, it wouldn't surprise us if a mobile caravan film festival were soon created, with one dedicated to screening animated shorts, another for documentaries, another for recipes... A wonderfully twee cultural pick-and-mix, washed down with craft beer, of course. And if not, just give it time.