{"id":1076,"date":"2017-11-28T01:17:19","date_gmt":"2017-11-28T01:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lbpost.com\/articles\/life\/arts-culture\/upcoming-documentary-no-parking-hones-in-on-long-beach-culture-through-diy-music-scene\/"},"modified":"2017-11-28T01:17:19","modified_gmt":"2017-11-28T01:17:19","slug":"upcoming-documentary-no-parking-hones-in-on-long-beach-culture-through-diy-music-scene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/hi-lo\/art\/upcoming-documentary-no-parking-hones-in-on-long-beach-culture-through-diy-music-scene","title":{"rendered":"Upcoming Documentary NO PARKING Hones in on Long Beach Culture Through DIY Music Scene"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-56857\" src=\"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/lbcene2.jpg\" alt=\"lbcene2\" width=\"620\" height=\"465\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo courtesy of Showrinji.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No Parking,&#8221; a documentary a year and a half in the making, is set to be a gritty, beautifully DIY look at some controversial topics, pursued sans what the filmmakers see as the self-glorification some locally-made films about Long Beach seem to spout.<\/p>\n<p>Five Long Beach locals, Michael Barnes, Alex Cheseborough, Jessica Burger, Sean Pritchett and Robert Nies make up Showrinji, an independent group of filmmakers keen on taking a closer look at just how Long Beach\u2019s DIY music scene functions, and how that ecosystem has widespread implications on the city as a whole, and vice versa.<\/p>\n<p>By taking a deep dive behind the scenes and offering a glance into the lives and motivations of Long Beach-based artists and groups like Rufrano, the Natives, Rudy de Anda, Bearcoon and Crimewave 5150, to name a handful, as well as independent labels Porch Party Records and Astro Lizard Records, the film aims to elicit some sense of surprise from its viewers regarding the impact different realms have on one another.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-56858\" src=\"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/lbcene4.JPG\" alt=\"lbcene4\" width=\"620\" height=\"420\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>From left: Michael Barnes, Sean Pritchett and Jessica Burger, three of the five-person Showrinji team. Photo by Asia Morris.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hope [viewers] enjoy it, I hope they smile seeing the people in it, hearing them talk about the scene. And a lot of it is about passion, so I hope they get that from it,\u201d Burger said. \u201cBut we hope that it makes them think. That\u2019s probably our biggest thing[&#8230;] it&#8217;s not just a yearbook video, it\u2019s supposed to be a little bit cerebral. And if people have opinions about it, that\u2019s okay.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Formerly titled LBCene, the film\u2019s creators rechristened it &#8220;No Parking,&#8221; an arguably appropriate catalyst to discussing what Long Beach is all about through the lens of its music scene, including the perspectives of venue owners, city officials, musicians, artists, fans and community members alike.<\/p>\n<p> <center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/220317763?color=ffffff&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"\" mozallowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/220317763\">No Parking<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/showrinji\">Showrinji<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <\/center> <\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven people who live on the East Side, what\u2019s the point of going to downtown? Why? There\u2019s no parking,\u201d stated Michelle Molina in one of the film\u2019s trailers. Molina is the managing partner of Millworks, owner of The Packard Building (among other sites used for arts and entertainment) which has so far served as a thriving, repurposed venue showcasing music and contemporary arts since opening last year.<\/p>\n<p>In April during an <a href=\"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/life\/music\/open-conversation-on-music-highlights-frustration-with-permits-entertainment-regulations\/\">Open Conversations<\/a> event and unrelated to the documentary (no Showrinji members were in attendance) attendees brought up lack of available parking and affordable housing in relation to the city\u2019s music scene, as well as frustration with permits and lack of venues, \u201csaying that people won\u2019t go to shows if they have to give up their parking spot and that artists are having to move out of the city because they can\u2019t afford the cost of living anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Councilmember Jeannine Pearce, an advocate for the city\u2019s performers and creatives, who is interviewed in the film, brought some of those frustrations to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/news\/city\/restrictions-on-low-decibel-outdoor-music-performances-to-be-examined-by-city-manager\/\">city council in June in the form of two items<\/a>.\u00a0In other words, the film certainly taps into current and controversial topics through the views of local artists.<\/p>\n<hr style=\"width:100%; float:left;\" \/>\n<div style=\"width: 100%; float: left;\">\n<div style=\"width: 100px; height: 100px; background-image: url('images\/stephanie\/music_discussion.jpg'); background-size: cover; background-position: center center; float: left; margin-right: 30px; display:none;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<p> <small style=\"font-weight: lighter;\">RELATED<\/small> <\/p>\n<h2 ><a onclick=\"ga('send', 'event', 'Related Link', 'click', 'Realted Link v1');\" href=\"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/life\/music\/open-conversation-on-music-highlights-frustration-with-permits-entertainment-regulations\/\">Open Conversation on Music Highlights Frustration with Permits, Entertainment Regulations<\/a><\/h2>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 100%; height: 0;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<hr style=\"width:100%; float:left;\" \/>\n<p>\u201c[Long Beach has] changed over the last six years since I\u2019ve been here, a lot,\u201d Pritchett said. \u201cI have mixed feelings about that, I\u2019m hoping we can address that in the documentary. Music is a result of people\u2019s feelings and I think they coincide and things can be shown through music culturally. And in a changing culture it can be interesting to watch that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, it\u2019s going to be critical in some ways of the scene, but it came from a really real place in our hearts and what we saw when we talked to people,\u201d Burger said. \u201cIt is a lot about community coming together, but then it\u2019s also about how that can blind you in a way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No Parking&#8221; also touches on \u201cthe Long Beach bubble\u201d or the feeling of getting stuck in a place of comfort. It\u2019s an idea that the Showrinji crew found to be a common topic throughout their interviews with local artists and decided to explore more in depth. Whether Long Beach functions as an actual community or just a group of cliques is also a question explored. Even gentrification, as told from a crew of filmmakers non-native to the city but who chose to live here, is a topic mentioned in the film.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-56859\" src=\"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/lbcene1.jpg\" alt=\"lbcene1\" width=\"620\" height=\"465\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve cut <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/showrinji\">three trailers<\/a> so far. [The third trailer] was like, okay, now we\u2019re going to roll the sleeves up and show you that yeah, maybe there\u2019s things here that people don&#8217;t really want to talk about,\u201d Barnes said. \u201cI think we all love Long Beach, that\u2019s why we wanted to make the doc, but we love it so much that we want to bring these questions up that I don\u2019t think anybody else is doing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Posted earlier this month, the Showrinji&#8217;s indiegogo campaign has raised 3 percent of their goal of reaching $4,800, to be used for equipment for post production, film festival submissions and a premiere party. Supporters will receive pins, tickets and other goodies depending on their donation.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more about Showrinji on Vimeo <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/showrinji\">here<\/a> and the indiegogo campaign <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiegogo.com\/projects\/there-s-no-parking-in-the-lbc-music#\/\">here<\/a>.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiegogo.com\/projects\/there-s-no-parking-in-the-lbc-music#\/.\"><br \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;No Parking,&#8221; a documentary a year and a half in the making, is set to be a gritty, beautifully DIY look at some controversial topics, pursued by\u00a0taking a closer look at Long Beach\u2019s DIY music scene.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":66542,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","inline_featured_image":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":"","_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"_":"","_author_alias":"","cap-aim":"","cap-description":"","cap-display_name":"","cap-first_name":"","cap-jabber":"","cap-last_name":"","cap-linked_account":"","cap-newspack_employer":"","cap-newspack_job_title":"","cap-newspack_phone_number":"","cap-newspack_role":"","cap-user_email":"","cap-user_login":"","cap-website":"","cap-yahooim":"","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_email_html":"","newspack_email_type":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_hide_page_title":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_show_share_buttons":"","newspack_sponsor_byline_prefix":"","newspack_sponsor_disclaimer_override":"","newspack_sponsor_flag_override":"","newspack_sponsor_only_direct":"","newspack_sponsor_url":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[509],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art","tag-film","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/136"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1076\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1076"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=1076"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}