Screening Date: Sat. Nov. 16, 2024
Time: 4:00pm
Venue: Bryant Lake Bowl
Cost: $15
Run Time/Year/Country: 70min, 1999, USA 
Director: Chris Wilcha

Featuring a post screening Q&A with director Chris Wilcha and HEAVY METAL PARKING LOT director Jeff Krulik

Co-presented by Pryes Brewing Company, Extreme Noise Records, Selig Polyscope

Christopher Wilcha’s fascinating feature-length video reminds us how seldom we’re allowed to see certain businesses operating from the inside. Wilcha, a 22-year-old college graduate and alternative-rock enthusiast, was hired by the Columbia Record and Tape Club—apparently as a fluke—to help launch a whole new niche-marketing division, which brought him face-to-face with the contradictory meanings of the term ‘alternative’ once it’s been embraced by the mass market. He brought his video camera to work every day, and what emerge are selective glimpses of—and thoughtful reflections on—his extended stint with the company.

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Film Title: HEAVY METAL PARKING LOT
Director: John Heyn, Jeff Krulik
Run Time/Year/Country: 16min, 1986, USA
Synopsis: In 1986, John Heyn and Jeff Krulik brought a public access camera to a Judas Priest concert parking lot and interviewed fans. The resulting documentary short Heavy Metal Parking Lot grew into a tape trading cult sensation that we're still talking about today.