Three Years Later
It’s been three years, almost to the week, since Twin Cities filmmaker Melody Gilbert began work on Urban Explorers: Into the Darkness, the first major documentary about urban exploration and some of the people behind this unusual activity. It’s been a long time to wait, but no longer - it’s finally finished.
From Melody comes word of one final sneak preview, and then the official world premiere and the “Minnesota Premiere”, all in the next six weeks or so. Taking them in no particular order:
The last sneak preview, and first foreign look at the film takes place the second week of February, at the Arctic Light Film Festival in warm and sunny Sweden. No word on details of the screening, but this is the festival that has projected films onto the walls of ice caves, and screened films in a coal mine, so this could be a very memorable viewing.
The world premiere will be at the CineQuest film festival in San Jose and San Francisco. The film screens in competition at 7pm on March 3rd and again at 4pm on March 4th, venues to be announced. Tickets should be available an hour before each showing, for $9. CineQuest is a fairly major international film festival, attended by more than fifty-thousand people every year. It should be, to quote Worf, glorious.
Closer to home, Urban Explorers: Into the Darkness makes it’s official Minnesota debut on Friday, March 16th, at 9pm, followed by a second screening a day later, March 17th, at 4pm. Both are at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, whom you should contact to reserve or purchase tickets. To judge from the turn-out at the last fundraiser for the film, I would not show up fifteen minutes early and expect to get in.
There will be other festival appearances and other screenings, here and elsewhere; these are just the first of the finished film, which is really, truly, finally here. Mark your calendar, and tell your friends. The wait is over!
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