“It’s not just a parking lot, it’s a battle with humanity.”
The Paramount Theater brings you the Charlottesville Premiere of the highly anticipated local documentary that everyone’s talking about.
The Parking Lot Movie is an expose about The Corner Parking Lot that is located across the street from the University of Virginia.
Three years in the making and edited together from over 150 hours of footage, this documentary is a strange rite of passage for all involved. Themes include cars and license plates, capitalism, anger, justice, drunkenness, awareness, class struggle all meshing together in the orbit of the Parking Lot Attendant. These themes and other ideas receive daily scrutiny and detailing.
For these denizens of Charlottesville, the intersection between the status quo and the quest for freedom becomes the challenge. Something as simple as a parking lot becomes an emotional weigh station for The American Dream. In the end, as one Attendant interestingly puts it, “We had it all in a world that had nothing to offer us.”
With Q&A afterwards with Filmmakers and Attendants.
Total Running Time: 84 minutes
For more information and to watch a trailer: http://parkinglotmovie.com/