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The Parking Lot Movie Showing at SXSW: The Parking Lot Movie, directed by Meghan Eckman

Synopsis from the movie's website:

The Parking Lot Movie is a documentary about a singular parking lot in Charlottesville, Virginia and the select group of Parking Lot Attendants that inhabit its microcosm. The Attendants are a uniquely varied group of men comprised of both undergraduate and graduate students, philosophers, intellectuals, musicians, artists, and marginal-type characters.

Three years in the making, this documentary is a strange rite of passage for all involved. Themes receiving daily scrutiny and detailing include cars and license plates, capitalism, anger, justice, drunkenness, spiritual awareness, class struggle, entitlement, and working in the Service Sector. These all mesh together in the orbit of the Parking Lot Attendant.

For these denizens of Charlottesville, Virginia, 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. As one Attendant interestingly puts it, “We had it all in a world that had nothing to offer us.”

Posted by Elise Nussbaum at 3:16 PM Labels: 2010, documentary, meghan eckman, sxsw, the parking lot movie

