12th Annual Brainwash Movie Festival

Brainwash Movie Festival

The Brainwash Movie Festival takes place this Friday, July 7th and Saturday, July 8th in Oakland. Now in its 12th year, this year’s format is a drive-in, bike-in, walk-in movie festival, featuring two days of unique and creative short films.

From the Brainwash Movie Festival mailing list:

Don’t miss The Fabulous 12th Annual Brainwash Drive-In/Bike-In/Walk-In Movie Festival!

You’ll eat up this year’s bumper crop of movies, featuring cabbages, pumpkins, several mothers, death by other devices, puppetry, horror, action, stop-action, and (of course) animation. Featuring the Rhythmic Revolution, live and in person.

When: Friday & Saturday, July 7th & 8th, 2006. shows at 9:00 p.m.

Where: Alliance for West Oakland Development Parking Lot, 1357 5th St. at Mandela Parkway, Oakland, CA. Here’s a map.

How: Sit in your car, or on a chair (yours or ours), and watch movies “magically” projected onto a giant screen. Sound is broadcast into your car or boom box using the wonder of frequency modulation (“FM”) — in stereo!

Admission: $8 ea. nite. Discount tickets available on TicketWeb and through our coupon (w/map).

Scott Beale
Scott Beale

Scott Beale founded Laughing Squid in 1995 in San Francisco and is currently based in New York City. When not running the blog, Scott can be found posting on Bluesky and sharing photos on Instagram.