This was such an interesting article because I had never
really put together the concept of microcinema before. But this is definitely a movement I’ve engaged
with in the past; I saw a pop-up screening of Breathless in a rec center, and my grandparents took me and my
brother to see art films in little playhouses and libraries and stuff all the
time growing up. They actually live in
Chatham, Massachusetts weirdly, and my brother and I spent our childhood
summers living on Cape with them, and for such a small area, there are lots of
cinephiles who engage with this kind of niche film culture (most of them
elderly-ish, but I think the majority of people who live on Cape Cod
are??). At first it seems disheartening
that the experience of going to a seedy little theater to see a foreign film is
becoming more and more scare, but it’s heartening to know that people who love
weird film are gonna gather up together and watch weird film in any place they
can.
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