ASCII Theater is a weirdly charming “cinema” that streams a full-length film as ASCII characters directly inside your terminal.
It’s presented as a daily screening: one movie runs for roughly 24 hours, then the marquee changes and the next title takes over - ascii.theater 
HTML5 mp4 https://ascii.theater/vidya/preview2.mp4 An short example of ASCII Theater - thought the way to view it is in the terminal.
# How it works You connect to the theater using SSH, and your terminal becomes the screen. The site’s current “paste this code” command is effectively an SSH session to a host called watch.ascii.theater (they also show it with StrictHostKeyChecking disabled to avoid the first-time prompt). Once connected, the movie plays as a stream of text frames, and you quit by closing the terminal or pressing “q”.
# What it is, culturally
ASCII Theater is a small love letter to ASCII art and Terminal culture: the pleasure is not picture quality, it’s recognition.
The project is by the art collective MSCHF, and it sits in the same “playfully provocative” space as their other work - including the recurring question of whether the screenings are legally dubious - theverge.com
Wired described the mechanics more explicitly as a video-to-text pipeline (video split into frames, frames mapped into character-sized chunks, then rendered as text) and notes it’s fast enough to run a new full-length film each day - wired.com
# Why it matters It’s a reminder that “iconic” images really are iconic: if you can recognise a scene through a blizzard of glyphs, the movie has already moved into shared memory. It’s also a neat demonstration of how far you can push “low-bandwidth” interfaces like terminals when you treat them as a medium rather than a limitation.