THE PRISONER MARATHON at Santa Cruz GDI Fri Aug 29th 8pm

Join us for our second showing as part of Surveillance Awareness Month. This brilliant British television series is more topical than ever. And we'll feature live surveillance of locations and petty authoritarians around town.

Santa Cruz Guerilla Drive-In Presents

Surveillance Awareness Month:
The Prisoner Marathon
with live surveillance

Friday Aug 29th, 8pm
Swift Street Railroad Tracks
Westside Santa Cruz
(Always Free!)

"The Prisoner," one of the most remarkable and challenging science fiction series of all time, follows "No. 6," a former government operative sent into a seemingly idyllic but twisted prison known as "The Village," where he struggles to retain his identity in the face of sophisticated and relentless attempts by the powers-that-be (known as "No. 2") to extract his secrets. A dizzyingly surreal experience filled with disempowerment and panoptic surveillance. With live surveillance of locations around town.

PLUS live surveillance, an intermission, challenging ideas of public space, an enchanting urban wasteland location, great company, and a guaranteed good time!

BRING blankets, pillows, anything you need to be comfortable in the great outdoors, friends, food and drink to share. Donations to support the project are more than welcome. (We are currently paying for new equipment.)

URBAN WASTELAND LOCATION: S on Hwy 17 to Hwy 1, Hwy 1 north to Mission St, L on Swift Street, the site is on a wall near the rail road tracks right behind Kelly's Bakery and Bay Federal Credit Union, also accessible from Fair ave.

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SUBVERSIVE SHORTS FESTIVAL Fri Aug 1st 8pm

Two important things you need to know about this Friday's GDI showing: 1) Note this week's location downtown, NOT at the RR tracks, and 2) Bring an FM radio. On Friday we're screening the Guerilla Drive-In Subversive Shorts Festival right downtown.

Santa Cruz Guerilla Drive-In Presents
13th Annual Subversive Shorts Festival

A program of rollicking and poignant Guerilla Drive-In Subversive Shorts. As you know, for years we've shown shorts before our feature film. By popular demand, we offer you an entire program of our subversive shorts. Great old shorts and many new ones. In addition, we offer you a convenient and central location that challenges the downtown police state.

Friday Aug 1st, 8pm
Pacific Ave & Cooper St, Downtown Santa Cruz
in front of the EvilPlex 9
(Always Free!)

NOTE: We will be right on Pacific at a fabulous downtown location this week, NOT at our usual RR tracks location. Repeat: We are NOT showing at the RR tracks this Friday. And for this showing, bring an FM radio. To skirt the stupid Santa Cruz laws regarding amplified sound, we'll be broadcasting the sound straight to your little radio.

PLUS an intermission, challenging ideas of public space, an enchanting downtown location, and great company.

BRING an FM radio, lawn chairs, blankets, pillows, friends, food & drink to share for intermission. Donations are greatly appreciated and directly support the project.

A RANT ABOUT PERMITS: We couldn't give a rat's ass about city permits. The idea that city administrators attempt to control every bit of public space in this town sorely lacking in public space is patently offensive to some of us. The sidewalks are ridgedly controlled, the parks and open spaces are closed at night, the beach (the beach! for God's sake) is locked down after 10pm, and the city fought it's own citizens long and hard to resist creating a town square. The folks in the Guerilla Drive-In collective have long thought that we are the public in public space and that we would not ask permission to freely use the streets and sidewalks of our town.

URBAN WASTELAND LOCATION: Go up Pacific until you get to Cooper. Stop there. Pull up a piece of curb. Enjoy the movie.

Silent Film Festival this Friday, July 18th

The Santa Cruz Guerilla Drive-In presents

Silent Film Festival

Friday July 18th 8:30pm
Under the Soquel Ave Bridge
Downtown Santa Cruz

Come relive the Age of the Silver Screen downtown under the bridge! Before the 1920's, most films had no synchronized recorded sound, but as we watch Keaton, Chaplin, Lloyd, Laurel and Hardy and more, you'll mourn the advent of sound technology.

BRING blankets, pillows, anything you need to be comfortable in the great outdoors, friends, food and drink to share. Donations to support the project are more than welcome. (We are currently paying for new equipment.)

URBAN WASTELAND LOCATION: Up from downtown on Soquel, right at Riverside, under the bridge

Post-Patriotic Revolutionary KIDS Night Out!

Join the Guerilla Drive-In's extended family and Free-Skool Kidz in a...

Post-Patriotic Revolutionary Kids Night Out!

The Journey of Natty Gann

Saturday, July 5th 8pm
West-Side Santa Cruz: Swift St
by the RxR Tracks (of course!) just behind Kelly's
Film starts at 8:30pm Sharp!

Between the world wars 1930's Depression in the US, a12-year old tomboy takes off in search of her father after he is forced to suddenly travel west to take a job in the northwest timber industry. Along the way, she befriends a young drifter (a very young John Cusack). A veritable how-to for radical kids: Truancy, train-hopping, vagrancy, hobo camps, friendship, loyalty and animal liberation. Note: This is a kid-friendly, family night.

No Fry-day Film, No pre-show hoopla, No shorts (too cold!)..... No shoes, No servicio...

In the name of brevity (and beddy-bye's) We've gone Disney on ya! and we're going straight to the lunch meat. Yes we are! The party begins at 8pm with pre-show doodles and secret note passing (chalk, pencils and paper supplied).
Dress warmly. Bring a blanket, tarp, beach chair, pillow, a sleeping-bag, food and/or drink to share (or not) and we'll see you there! Yes we will!

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LATCHO DROM Friday June 20th 8pm

Santa Cruz Guerilla Drive-In presents:

Latcho Drom

a film by director and writer Tony Gatlif

Friday June 20th 8pm
Swift Street Railroad Tracks
Westside Santa Cruz

This magical, enticing film offers a musical and choreographic vision of the Gypsies' trek from their original home in India, through the Middle East, to Eastern and Central Europe. This journey takes place over a year's time, from summer through fall and winter to spring.

Latcho Drom or "safe journey" illustrates the variety of conditions in which the Romany people live -- earthbound nomads in the hot deserts of Asia, ironsmiths and abjectly poor tree-dwellers in the frozen plains of Eastern Europe, and craftspeople and traders in the hills and seasides of north Africa and western Europe. Filmmaker Tony Gatlif -- who himself has Gypsy ancestry -- captures his people's ever-changing culture. In each new country where the Gypsies settled, their songs, dances and costume absorbed elements of local traditions; thus, there are Indian drums, Oriental belly-dancing, Hungarian violins and Spanish guitars. Throughout, via song and dance, young and old celebrate, embody, and teach the cultural values of family, journey, love, separateness, and persecution.

PLUS thrilling and funny short films, an intermission, challenging ideas of public space, an enchanting urban wasteland location, great company, and a guaranteed good time!

BRING blankets, pillows, anything you need to be comfortable in the great outdoors, friends, food and drink to share. Donations to support the project are more than welcome. (We are currently paying for new equipment.)

URBAN WASTELAND LOCATION: S on Hwy 17 to Hwy 1, Hwy 1 north to Mission St, L on Swift Street, the site is on a wall near the rail road tracks right behind Kelly's Bakery and Bay Federal Credit Union, also accessible from Fair ave.

Jan Švankmajer meats the Brothers Quay at Der Wienerschnitzel

The Santa Cruz Guerilla Drive-In presents

Jan Švankmajer meats the Brothers Quay at Der Wienerschnitzel

Friday June 6th at Dusk
at Wienerschnitzel
800 Soquel Ave, Santa Cruz

A collection of short stop-motion animation films projected on the yellow roof of the abandoned and decaying Der Wienerschnitzel. Švankmajer is a Czech filmmaker whose stop-motion films are often surreal, nightmarish and yet comical at times. His movies often involve inanimate objects coming alive. Most of the Brothers Quay's films feature dolls, often partially disassembled, in a dark, moody atmosphere. Their films can also be surreal and haunting.
URBAN WASTELAND LOCATION Der Wienerschnitzel at Soquel Ave. and Caledonia St.- from Ocean Street turn onto Soquel Ave. (away from downtown) and the yellow peaked monstrosity that was Der Wienerschnitzel is a street past Branciforte Ave. on the right.

BRING blankets, pillows, anything you need to be comfortable in the great outdoors, friends, food and drink to share. Donations to support the project are more than welcome. (We are currently paying for new equipment.)

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ROMEO + JULIET Friday May 23rd 8pm

Please join us for the first show of our summer series! A celebration of the re-emergence of GDI from a winter of (near) hibernation! Bring bottles of bubbly! Going on seven years, yo.

Santa Cruz Guerilla Drive-In Presents

William Shakespeare's
ROMEO + JULIET
(the first show of our summer series!)
Friday May 23rd 8pm
Railroad tracks at Fair Ave

Two households, both alike in dignity, In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,
From ancient grudge break to new mutiny, Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.
From forth the fatal loins of these two foes, A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life;

PLUS thrilling and funny short films, an intermission, challenging ideas of public space, an enchanting urban wasteland location, great company, and a guaranteed good time!

BRING blankets, pillows, anything you need to be comfortable in the great outdoors, friends, food and drink to share. Donations to support the project are more than welcome. (We are currently paying for new equipment.)

URBAN WASTELAND LOCATION: S on Hwy 17 to Hwy 1, Hwy 1 north to Mission St, L on Fair Ave after Feral Donuts, walk a short way along the RR tracks to the right.