Artists line up to show films at Arad's Roundhouse curtain call

It is the slinkiest of curtains designed to turn one of London's famous music venues into the most intriguing of cinemas.

Designer and architect Ron Arad, 50, today unveils, at the Roundhouse in Camden, his summer installation - 5,600 silicon rods suspended from an 18-metre circular ring.

The rods have created a canvas upon which films by artists as diverse as Mat Collishaw, David Shrigley and Christian Marclay, fashion designer Hussein Chalayan and Royal College of Art students will be projected for three weeks.

It will also form a diverting new backdrop to an August programme of live performances that includes Steven Isserlis playing Bach cello solos and American author Jonathan Safran Foer presenting a "rude oracle". In a separate event, designer Paul Cocksedge will heat and mould visitors' old LP records to give them a new life as vinyl speakers to amplify music played from smartphones.

Arad said of his installation: "It lets the public cross through the moving images."

Curtain Call, sponsored by Bloomberg, runs until August 29.