| Place: Santa Cruz, West Chester (USA). Date: 2005-ongoing. Time: One night. Space: Public Space. Cost: 1,500$. Public actors: -. Private actors: people. |
The drive-in theater has largely faded from our cultural landscape, with only hundreds remaining in the U.S., after a peak of 4,000 during the late 1950s and early ‘60s. Today independent groups across the country, such as Santa Cruz Guerrilla Drive-in in California and West Chester Guerrilla Drive-in in Pennsylvania, are reviving this classic pastime, motivated not only by nostalgia but by the urge to bring some life to dull outdoor spaces, such as deserted parking lots and non-descript warehouse districts. (New York’s Rooftop Film Festival similarly originated from a spontaneous act of neighbors craving outdoor entertainment.) The films are almost always free, with schedules and locations posted on websites, bringing neighbors together in a way that Netflix and iTunes cannot. [From SpontaneusInterventions]
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References:
http://www.guerilladrivein.org/
http://www.flickr.com/groups/guerilladrivein/
http://www.spontaneousinterventions.org/project/guerrilla-drive-ins
