Non-Profit Movie Theater

A non-profit movie theater? Fellow blogger and one-day roommate [during Live8 Philadelphia] Brian Russell over at Audio Activism down in the Chapel Hill area of NC is hoping to open a non-profit movie theater. From his announcement:

Opening a movie theater is one of my oldest dreams. Please come out to see a great film and support the concept of a NONPROFIT movie theater. We’re working to raise interest and money to get this project rolling.

There wll be a screening of the documentary Monster Road about self-taught clay-mator Bruce Bickford from Bright Eye Pictures to support the concept of a non-profit movie theater. From BEP's website:

Entirely self-taught, the 57 year old Bickford works alone in a small basement studio in his house near Seattle. His films, especially the dark and magical clay animations he created for musician Frank Zappa in the 1970s, have achieved cult status worldwide, even though very little of his 40 year body of work has been edited or released to the public.

Monster Road explores this vast collection of animation, and also presents glimpses of the real life from which his fantastic imaginary worlds sprang.

The screening is Wednesday night and it is free to all. Details here. I've never seen any of Bickford's work, but I've always been a big fan of claymation and I'd love to see the film, especially in this kind of setting, but I'm all the way up here in Philly.

Projects like these will help shake up the movie houses out in Hollywood. They know that the shit that they're putting out is mostly shit. Congratulations to you Brian on starting this incredible initiative. I hope to support it in person in NC some day soon.

Comments

[Ruby]

C'mon down, Albert! Road trip...

[BrianR]

Thanks Albert! I second Ruby. You're more than welcome to visit and stay here any time. Make plans to come to PodcasterCon 2006 on January 7, 2006 at UNC here in Chapel Hill.

[eRobin]

Oh, I'd love to do this. There's a closed theater near me that I've been wanting to buy forever. This sounds like a great idea.

[autumn]

nonprofit theatres are great! although I don't know of any here in the city, there are at least three nonprofit movie theatres that I can think of in the Philly suburbs: the Hiway in Jenkintown, the Ambler Theatre in Ambler, and the County Theatre in Doylestown... oddly enough, they all seem to be playing the same movies. Not that you shouldn't take a road trip to Chapel Hill anyway :)