2005 GLFA Films

Parking: A Way of Life

Category: Documentary Feature 51 min
Director: Markie Hancock

Using parking as a metaphor for life in New York City, Hancock Productions is proud to announce "Parking: A Way of Life," a film documenting the difficulties New Yorkers face when trying to park their cars. Markie Hancock and Kathryn Gregorio started with the unique practice and rules of 'Alternate Side of the Street Parking Regulations' of Manhattan's Upper West Side. They discovered myriad rituals and quirks embedded in the personalities of New Yorkers willing to accept the challenge of owning a car in the city. Hancock and Gregorio then travel to all five boroughs seeking out each borough's character and parking nuances. Some move their cars across the street, double park for hours while sitting in their cars, only to return their cars back to the same spot. Others are clever scofflaws, never moving their cars. Still others have turned parking into performance art. In a city famous for its public transportation, why do people have cars, often spending hours a day moving their cars from one side of the street to the other? The answers from politicians, artists, writers, urban planners and regular folk are strange and often illogical, but never dull. Through the mundane ritual of parking, the spirit of New York City emerges as vital, indomitable and above all, gloriously human.

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Calvin Trillin (Writer of among others, 'Tepper Isn't Going Out' , 'Obliviously on He Sails: The Bush Administration in Rhyme')
'Gridlock' Sam Schwartz (Columnist for the 'New York Daily News')
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