Drive By Cinema, an experimental mobile cinema project of the Pacific Arts Movement, will officially launch Friday evening, February 15, 2013 at the site of the old State Theatre on El Cajon Blvd and Euclid Ave in San Diego.
After several covert test runs, Drive By Cinema rolls into City Heights to the spot where the State Theatre once thrived, first as one of San Diego?s grandest movie screens, then in the 1980s as a movie house showing Asian cinema to the neighborhood?s Vietnamese community. Today, few vestiges of the State?s history remain, and even less about its 1980-87 tenure as the Trieu Thanh Theater. At 5:00 PM on Feb. 15, that history will be exercised through a film from the State Theatre?s Asian cinema decade, snacks for all, and an after party with Beat Kitchen at the equally historic Til Two Club.
Drive By Cinema was inspired by the late George Lin, former San Diego Asian Film Festival Associate Director, who once proposed buying old mail trucks to drive around the city to project films. In the same spirit, Pac-Arts has refurbished an old truck to cruise around high foot traffic areas and blast films wherever they can. There are no rules of engagement. Pedestrians and followers will decide what to do with the film. They can walk in and out, they can talk, they can eat, or they can ignore it altogether. This is an experiment in audience-driven cinema exhibition, fused to the very localness and publicness of ordinary spaces.
Admission/Cost: FREE
Location:
The State Theatre
4730 El Cajon Blvd
San Diego, CA 92115
Friday, February 15 - 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM
For more information, please visit: www.drivebycinema.com
After several covert test runs, Drive By Cinema rolls into City Heights to the spot where the State Theatre once thrived, first as one of San Diego?s grandest movie screens, then in the 1980s as a movie house showing Asian cinema to the neighborhood?s Vietnamese community. Today, few vestiges of the State?s history remain, and even less about its 1980-87 tenure as the Trieu Thanh Theater. At 5:00 PM on Feb. 15, that history will be exercised through a film from the State Theatre?s Asian cinema decade, snacks for all, and an after party with Beat Kitchen at the equally historic Til Two Club.
Drive By Cinema was inspired by the late George Lin, former San Diego Asian Film Festival Associate Director, who once proposed buying old mail trucks to drive around the city to project films. In the same spirit, Pac-Arts has refurbished an old truck to cruise around high foot traffic areas and blast films wherever they can. There are no rules of engagement. Pedestrians and followers will decide what to do with the film. They can walk in and out, they can talk, they can eat, or they can ignore it altogether. This is an experiment in audience-driven cinema exhibition, fused to the very localness and publicness of ordinary spaces.
Admission/Cost: FREE
Location:
The State Theatre
4730 El Cajon Blvd
San Diego, CA 92115
Friday, February 15 - 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM
For more information, please visit: www.drivebycinema.com
