On august 23rd 2004, the Parisian police discovered Les Arènes de Chaillot ("The Chaillot Arenas"), a fully equiped movie theatre built under the Chaillot Hill by La Mexicaine De Perforation ("The Perforating Mexicans").
All the summer 2004, La Mexicaine De Perforation managed this cinema
and showed dozens of movies doing the Urbex
Movies festival.
One remembers that La Mexicaine De Peforation organized at the Cinémathèque
française's Chaillot projection room the Session
Comoda clandestine film festival during the summer 2003.
La Mexicaine De Perforation is member of L'UX, a Paris based clandestine organisation whose goal is to improve and restore the hidden and abandoned sides of urban inheritage.
The members of L'UX are largely secret, but its spokesman is Lazar Kunstmann who just published La culture en clandestins. L'UX relating 25 years of clandestine cultural actions.
Choice
of articles:
The
Guardian (Sept. 8, 2004)
Le
Parisien (Sept. 4, 2004)
The
Guardian (Sept. 11, 2004)
Le Monde (Sept. 12, 2004)
Le
Monde 2 (Oct. 16, 2004)
Time
Out Paris guide 2005
TV:
May 1, 2005: The first images ever seen on television of La Mexicaine
De Perforation's clandestine cinema: Canal
+ : la Semaine du Cinéma with the interview of French director
Pierre Tchernia whose film Les Gaspards (The
Holes) is a classic for La Mexicaine De Perforation.
Miscellaneous:
With Greg,
read the interview of La Mexicaine De Perforation
Everything
about the grammar of "La Mexicaine De Perforation"
A
Mexican perforator by any other name
La
Mexicaine De Perforation as an exam test (Text 2, page 24)
Une nuit avec La Mexicaine De Perforation. (Libération, Nov.
26, 2004)
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La
culture en clandestins. L'UX
25 years of cultural clandestine action by Lazar Kunstmann
the spokesman for l'UX.
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