About

The Moving Picture Show was started in 2009 as a creative response to the parade of Ice Cream Trucks that flood our neighborhoods in the summer. We thought, "what if there was a media mobile that had a hip, skippy beat à la The Pied Piper of Hamlin vis-a-vis DJ remix, and drew out the masses, not to pick and choose amongst hundreds of processed ice creams and frozen sugary treats, but to savor locally-produced images and sounds?"

The Moving Picture Show is a first, and quite possibly might be a last; however, what is important is that we have been given the opportunity to carry this project through. Over the course of three weekends in the month of October of 2009 (yes, October 2009) the Media Mobile will circle through three distinct neighborhoods of the city of Chicago projecting images and sounds. These neighborhoods are Albany Park, a multi-culti mix of East and West where birkas meet bindis and Korean BBQ browns over charcoals as does the sweet smell of shisha while low-riders bounce to Tupac; Lakeview, a trendy enclave of boutiques and salons for boys-who-like-boys the girls who like them that is colorful and always party-central for this hedonistic (yet frozen) city; and Little Village, a ground zero for a collection of bustling Mexican and Mexican-American communities, flanked by descriptive murals, watchful grandparents, and the syncopated clank of cowboy boots on gum-dotted sidewalks.

Mission and Objective

The Moving Picture Show is a mobile media festival inspired by, well, the Ice Cream Trucks that roam the cities and hamlets of our nation spreading chilled, milky sweet treat.

The mission of The Moving Picture Show is to spread locally-produced media to the streets of cities, villages, and exurbs that tell a different story. We want the haunting melody of our media truck to bring everyone out to the streets for a look at what is being produced by local artists and cineastes.