DRIVE-IN

I remember going to see “Who framed Roger Rabbit” at the Zwartkops Drive-in in my pyjamas. I remember my brother and I hiding under the blankets on the back seat and in the boot as my father instructed. We all knew this was less about saving us the nominal fee than about the heart in [...]

SLIDE OF THE TIMES, (BETHLEHEM DRIVE-IN)

Sep 13

2010

I’ve often wondered about the ethics of deconstruction, the power one has to defragment pockets of history. I am guilty of course and justify this by virtue of the fact that I intend to preserve the memory… These slides that we once projected on a now non-existent screen tell their own story of decline and [...]

HINDSIGHT (MIDRAND DRIVE-IN)

Sep 13

2010

The scene: Midrand Drive-in a few more months down the road, a few more teeth missing from its massive grin, is the biggest screen I have come across yet and the only one with a curved screen with a full walk-way from top edge to top edge. Built near a busy intersection, the screen was [...]

PANORAMA ( HARTEBEES’ DRIVE-IN )

Sep 13

2010

Standing in front of a Drive-in some time ago, I heard a friend simply say, “Katte sien spoke”, ( cats see ghosts ). It seemed inexplicably profound at the time. We may not all see ghosts, but there is a sense one gets upon seeing a Drive-in that is a mixture of history, memory, nostalgia [...]

CELLULAR LIGHT

Sep 13

2010

After everything else I have said about Drive-ins there is something about my fascination that although inherent in Drive-ins has nothing at all to do with Drive-ins. There is a common factor in almost all my other works that, I think, has something closer to do with a portal or terminal: an object of focus [...]

ALBERTON PANORAMA 1958 – 2003

Sep 13

2010

Drive-in (adj., n.)(denoting) a public facility used by patrons in their cars. This is not a Drive-in! This is a picture of the Alberton Panorama Drive-in, taken four years ago. This is, however, not the way the Alberton Panorama Drive-in even looked four years ago. This is a digitally altered, slightly sentimental, representation of The [...]