Miles Williams

Overview

Miles Williams is the Alex Theatre artistic director interviewed by Marketplace Tech about the theater’s 70mm retrofit for The Odyssey and the renewed appeal of analog projection.

Current Profile

Williams’s role in the source is explanatory and operational. He translates the difference between IMAX 70mm, digital IMAX, standard digital, standard 70mm, and 35mm into public terms, then links those format differences to the real work of rebuilding a historic theater for film projection.

The source also uses Williams as a cultural observer. He argues that film projection makes moviegoing feel like an event, describes historic theaters as living museums, and connects younger interest in projection and physical media to a desire for tangible connection.

Key Characteristics

• Artistic director of the Alex Theatre in the Marketplace Tech source.
• Public explainer of 70mm Film Projection and the differences among IMAX 70mm, digital IMAX, standard digital, standard 70mm, and 35mm.
• Operator-facing witness to the theater’s projection, sound, booth, budget, and schedule constraints.
• Advocate for Analog Moviegoing Experience, emphasizing event value, historic theaters, and closeness to projected film.
• Observer of projectionist apprenticeship and younger analog-media interest, especially around visible booth labor.

Evidence

• Institutional role - Why 70mm Film Still Feels Like the Hottest Movie Technology identifies Williams as artistic director of the Alex Theatre in Glendale, California.
• Format explanation - Why 70mm Film Still Feels Like the Hottest Movie Technology has Williams distinguish IMAX 70mm’s horizontal 15-perforation film from digital IMAX, standard digital, standard 70mm, and 35mm.
• Retrofit account - Why 70mm Film Still Feels Like the Hottest Movie Technology records Williams’s account of specialists, picture windows, existing screen reuse, roughly half a million dollars in cost, and an eight-week build window.
• Cultural interpretation - Why 70mm Film Still Feels Like the Hottest Movie Technology says Williams frames projected film as an event and historic theaters as living museums.
• Apprenticeship signal - Why 70mm Film Still Feels Like the Hottest Movie Technology reports Williams’s examples of people emailing to apprentice and younger patrons wanting to learn projection.

Qualifications

The page records Williams’s role in one interview. His comments on Gen Z analog interest and market response are useful as informed venue-level observations, but they are not broad demographic evidence by themselves.

What Changed

• Added Williams as the source’s theater operator and technical-cultural interpreter.
• Captured his role in connecting large-format film projection to venue work, apprenticeship, and analog experience.

Relationships

• Alex Theatre - institution Williams represents in the source.
• 70mm Film Projection - format and maintenance field Williams explains.
• Analog Moviegoing Experience - cultural value argument Williams makes.
• The Odyssey - film release around which the interview is organized.
• Marketplace Tech - show context for the interview.