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Featured Documetary: The Parking Lot Movie
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posted Oct 18, 2010, 17:19
Director Meghan Eckman's irreverently funny debut celebrates a brotherhood of eccentric attendants who man a unique parking lot in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Featured Documetary: The Parking Lot
Movie
Hailed as the "most feel-good film" of the South by Southwest Film
Festival, director Meghan Eckman's irreverently funny debut celebrates a brotherhood
of eccentric attendants who man a unique parking lot in Charlottesville, Virginia.
From grad students to middle-age slackers, indie-rock musicians to surly philosophers,
these overeducated part-timers wax profoundly about car culture and capitalism,
seek vengeance against entitled patrons and thieves, and make fun of drunken
jerks.
Over three years, Eckman filmed the comings and goings of the characters who
man the attendant's booth at the lot, hearing their theories and observing their
behaviour.
Former attendants, including James McNew from Yo La Tengo, may have moved on,
though their time at the lot has clearly provided rites of passage and afforded
them Zen-like perspective. The Parking Lot Movie is warmly playful, hilariously
funny and disarmingly perceptive. Anyone with experience of working in the service
industry while harbouring dreams of bettering themselves will be able to relate.
If the intersection between the status quo and the quest for freedom is their
ultimate challenge, could a slab of asphalt be an emotional way station for
The American Dream?
Resources:
http://www.theparkinglotmovie.com/
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