What is pirate cinema?

The idea of the Pirate Cinema is to go into an unused space and use it for a temporary event 
 (the screening of a film). The space is used for only one night and then we pack up and head
home leaving very little trace of ever being there.

At the cinema people are offered to have D.I.Y. stalls, bring acoustic instruments and have a
jam, bring portable music devices and play music before or after to make it more of an event.

The Pirate Cinema provides free entertainment. It is a subtle protest against high cinema prices,
copy write laws (I am not even allowed to screen a movie that I own to a public audience) and
the commercialisation of entertainment. It is pro-independent films and gives films that wouldn’t
get shown at a main stream cinema a chance to get screened. The project aims to build a
community around using these unused spaces for free and cheap entertainment.

To run the pirate cinema we would take in a battery system, an inverter, a projector and
portable DVD player and set up a cinema for one night in the space.

A lot of the equipment is home made. The battery system is made of decommissioned wheel
chair batters mounted in a homemade road case and wired together in a series. Both a store
bought projector and a home made data projector that is made out of an over head projector
and parts of a LCD screen have been used.

For more information see the wiki listing at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Cinema

Photographs from Sat.

I didn't get many photographs because I didn't have a flash for my camera, but if anyone else did please send them to Piratecinema@lawyer.com so that I can share them with everyone who was there.

Here are the few I did take.

Screening Sat. 16th April 2011

When: Sat. 16th April 2011 6:00PMish

Where: Meet at Gilpin Park (near the BBQ and play equipment), Albert St, Brunswick Victoria 3056 for pre BBQ & drinks and then walk to the location for the cinema.

What are we showing: An Australian vampire film called 'Day breakers'

What to bring:
1) a torch or battery powered light
2) Good closed shoes
3) Drinks, snacks & BBQable food for the BBQ before the cinema
4) Table tennis bats & balls if you are keen (there is 2 table tennis tables at the park where we are meeting).
5) Chairs and blankets to sit on (the place is dusty)
6) Battery powered music devices or acoustic instruments (for before and after the film)
D.I.Y. stalls welcome and encouraged

Other things to note:
1) There is a porter loo at the location of the screening
2) There is no power or water at the screening but water at the park
3) Clean up after yourself
4) Don't bring trouble or attract security or the law
5) There is some street parking near the park
6) The closest train station is Brunswick
7) There is shelter if it rains
8) No one but yourself is responsible for you or your actions
9) Enter at your own risk
10) Check this website on the day in case of changes, any hick ups or cancellations.

We're building road cases

OK so we're building road cases for the batteries so in future we should have:

* Faster set up and pack up time (because the batteries will all ready be wired together)
* Easier to carry batteries (because that suit case was heavy!)
* 3 battery boxes that almost look as sexy as the people who made them

Photographs from Thursday 12th August 2010

Hope everyone had fun. Here are some pictures that Arresto took from the night: