FilmPOP: HEAVY METAL PICNIC + HEAVY METAL PARKING LOT 25th Anniversary!
Heavy Metal Memories:
HEAVY METAL PICNIC
Jeff Krulik | USA 2010 | 65min.| Canadian Premiere
With original cinematographer Rudy Childs in person!
(Admission $8 or $12 combo ticket that includes Dream Deceivers at 7:30pm)
Buy tickets through the Blue Sunshine website HERE.
Co-presented with Sound Central!
Join us for the afterparty at Salon Officiel's JOUR DU SABBAT!
Produced and directed by the team behind cult hit Heavy Metal Parking Lot, Heavy Metal Picnic is a celebration of mid-80s Maryland rock n roll and heavy metal told by the people who survived it. The film focuses on the 1985 Full Moon Jamboree, a weekend field party bacchanal that took place at "The Farm," home to a cast of colourful characters who lived and partied alongside unamused neighbors in the McMansions of Potomac. The Full Moon Jamboree, an affair so raucous that it made the evening news, was the farm party to end all farm parties, and much of it was recorded using a home video camera and a stolen CBS News microphone swiped from the Reagan Inauguration earlier that year. Twenty-five years later, Krulik + co. revisit the scene and meet the people behind the party, as well as the musicians who performed there, including mid-Atlantic doom metal icons Asylum.
Plays with:
HEAVY METAL PARKING LOT 25th Anniversary Screening
Jeff Krulik + John Heyn | USA 1986 | 17min.
In 1986 indie filmmakers John Heyn and Jeff Krulik wandered around a Maryland sports arena parking lot with a video camera, seeking to capture footage of Judas Priest fans in their native habitat. Among their muscle cars and between sips of Budweiser (in a just world, Anheuser Busch would have underwritten this documentary), the feather-haired followers of Priest put on a show rivaling any entertainment occurring inside the stadium that night. Bellowing and proselytizing their enthusiasm for all things related to leather-clad men with guitars, these fans are easy to laugh at for their drunken cluelessness, but are equally endearing for the way they represent rabid fandom in general.
and:
THE ANIMATED HEAVY METAL PARKING LOT
Leslie Supnet | Canada 2008 | 2min.
Leslie Supnet’s hilarious and endearing take on Jeff Krulik and John Heyn’s 1986 cult classic Heavy Metal Parking Lot. Made for a Son of Rambow-inspired remake contest.
