Beijing Bicycle and Plagues & Pleasures on the Salton Sea

Fri, May 19
8:00 PM
Free!

A special showing: two amazing films with two great local
organizations. Three, I guess, if you count us.

Santa Cruz Guerilla Drive-In
with the Santa Cruz Film Festival
and Bike to Work Week Present

A Double Feature

BEIJING BICYCLE
and
PLAGUES & PLEASURES ON THE SALTON SEA

Friday May 19th, 8:00pm
Santa Cruz Sentinel Parking Lot, Church Street, Downtown

Beijing Bicycle is the single greatest movie about a boy losing his
bike since Pee Wee's Big Adventure. Persistence pays off for a
country boy Guei when he lands a coveted job as a bicycle messenger
on the teaming streets of Beijing. The silver mountain bike he now
rides will be his - once he earns 600 yuan. But just as he makes his
final payment, the bicycle is stolen. Brought to you by Santa Cruz
Bike To Work Week. Screening begins at 8ish.

Plagues & Pleasures on the Salton Sea is heartbreaking and beautiful,
a bizarre portrait of perseverance amid environmental apocalypse.
This extraordinary documentary provides a kitsch kaleidoscope view of
what was pitched to '50s America as the new Palm Springs and the
place to buy holiday homes. Now virtually abandoned and with a high
salt content that leaves thousands of dead fish heaped up on the
beach, Salton Sea is nonetheless home to some weird and wonderful
characters who give us a peek at true Americana. Delightfully
entertaining and fascinating, people such as 'Hunky Daddy' - the self-
appointed mayor of Bombay Beach - splash vivid colors across the
desert landscape of holiday's paradise lost. Director Chris Metzler
may join us for a Q&A afterward. Brought to you by the Santa Cruz
International Film Festival. Screening begins at 10ish.

PLUS an introduction to bike culture and bike to work week,

BRING lawn chairs, blankets, pillows, friends, drinks, & food to
share for intermission.

SANTA CRUZ GUERILLA DRIVE-IN is an outdoor movie theatre under the
stars that springs up in the fields and industrial wastelands.
Beyond showing great movies and bringing a broad community together,
part of our mission is helping reclaim public space and transforming
our urban environment into the joyful playground it should be.

THE SANTA CRUZ INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL May 5-11 '06 continues its
mission to reach out to the film and digital media community around
the world to further support the artists of today and the filmmakers
of tomorrow. We offer these artists unique venues to present their
individual brand of independent storytelling to an ever growing and
enthusiastic audience.

SANTA CRUZ COUNTY BIKE TO WORK/SCHOOL DAY is a community-wide effort,
providing public education, and incentives to promote bike commuting.
The Nineteenth Annual Santa Cruz County Spring Bike Week 2006 is May
13-21. Events include Rail & Trail Day, The Bicycle Trip's Bike
Fest, commuter race, bike skills and maintenance classes and kids
mountain bike ride through Wilder Ranch. And much more!

SPECIAL DOWNTOWN LOCATION: Downtown on Church Street next to the
library across from the Sentinel building.

BREAKING NEWS, updated summer schedule, discussion, do-it-yourself,
email list, the works.

www.guerilladrivein.org

Venue:

Santa Cruz Sentinel Parking Lot
Church Street, Downtown
Santa Cruz



SPECIAL DOWNTOWN LOCATION: Downtown on Church Street next to the
library across from the Sentinel building.

Additional Info:


http://www.guerilladrivein.org