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When aspiring filmmakers Jeff Krulik and John Heyn visited the Capital Centre parking lot on May 31, 1986, they had little more in mind than to document a fan scene at full peak. What they ended up creating was a cult film now considered among the greatest rock documentaries of all time. Just under 17 minutes long, Heavy Metal Parking Lot features local heavy metal fans expressing their enthusiasm for Judas Priest before the band performed in concert that night. Thirty years later, the film continues to resonate with fans around the globe.
The University of Maryland is proud to honor both the legacy of the film and that of its co-producer. Jeff Krulik, a lifetime Marylander and graduate of UMD (B.A. English, 1983), is an independent documentarian, videographer and cultural preservationist who has built a distinct career tapping into the rich ore of local culture in the Maryland/D.C. region. In 1996, the Washington Post noted that his esteemed documentaries “demonstrate a loving eye for Americana and eccentricity.”
Krulik, Maryland Alumni Magazine, Spring 2001, photo by John ConsoliThe Jeff Krulik Collection, acquired by Mass Media & Culture collections within the UMD Libraries’ Special Collections and University Archives in November 2015, includes research files and source tapes for more than a dozen documentaries, as well as photos, catalogs, magazines, guides, posters, ephemera and audiovisual materials that represent a lifetime fascination with the offbeat and unusual. The collection is currently being processed, and will be available to researchers within the next two years.
To celebrate the 30th anniversary of Krulik’s most iconic film, the exhibit “Heavy Metal Parking Lot: The 30-Year Journey of a Cult Film Sensation”, opening next month in the Gallery at the Michelle Smith Performing Arts Library, illustrates the film’s unexpected path from bootleg copies to international fame. Additional items from the Krulik Collection will also be on display.
Please join us for the opening reception in the the Pavilion of the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center on May 27 from 6-8:30pm. This lively event will feature short presentations by film scholars, a screening of the film and a Q&A session with Jeff Krulik and John Heyn.

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1. UMHMPX_160527_005.JPG: Union Craft Brewing of Baltimore, MD produced commemorative cans of one of their beers for the event. Whaddya drinking tonight? Heavy Metal Parking Lot, what else? Maryland filmmakers Jeff Krulik and John Heyn proudly present a golden strong ale to commemorate the 30th anniversary of their 1986 cult documentary.
2. UMHMPX_160527_026.JPG: John Kinhart's comic book version of the story of Heavy Metal Parking Lot
3. UMHMPX_160527_037.JPG: What Is Heavy Metal Parking Lot? "This unforgettable documentary is a true cult film." -- Boston Herald, 10-18-00 When aspiring filmmakers Jeff Krulik (UMD '83) and John Heyn descended upon the Capital Centre parking lot on May 31, 1986, they had little more in mind than to document a fan scene at full peak. The result was Heavy Metal Parking Lot, a 16-minute film featuring local heavy metal fans expressing their enthusiasm for Judas Priest before the band performed in concert that night. Yet the film, which lacks a narrative, also seems to capture something at once obvious and elusive, a collective portrait clear in its depiction but somehow impossible to define. The film's subsequent 30-year journey into popular culture -- which started from bootleg copies passed among fans and video collectors, and grew into multi-generation dubs on an underground tape-trading network -- had earned it an international fan base all its own. Filmmakers, musicians, actors, artists, music fans and scholars have embraced it as both an iconic representation of a unique subculture and a valuable primary source worthy of anthropological study. Meanwhile, the question, "What is Heavy Metal Parking Lot?" remains unanswerable, and that may be precisely why its legacy endures.
4. UMHMPX_160527_046.JPG: Filming Heavy Metal Parking Lot: On Saturday, May 31, 1986, Judas Priest headlined a concert at the Capital Centre in Landover, Maryland, sharing the bill with fellow metal band Dokken. That afternoon, aspiring filmmakers John Heyn and Jeff Krulik left the MetroVision public access studio and headed to the Cap Centre. John had come up with the idea to document heavy metal fans; Jeff had come with the equipment to do so. They arrived before 5pm, paid the parking fee, and with a camera, deck and microphone, immersed themselves in the parking lot crowd. Using just three twenty-minute tapes, they interviewed a random cross section of heavy metal fans. When the tapes were filled, the two filmmakers returned to the studio and watched the footage. Jeff thought up the name "Heavy Metal Parking Lot," and John edited the documentary to just under seventeen minutes. The first public screening was in October 1986 at d.c. space as part of the bi-monthly "I Am Eye" screening series, where anyone could bring something to screen. The audience response was positive. Since the only way to view the film was on a consumer VHS player, Jeff and John distributed the film themselves, giving copies to anyone who asked, and screening it at parties, record stores, and local nightclubs. After a final grand showing at the AFI Theater during the "Don't Quit Your Day Job Film & Video Festival" in 1990, the pair shelved Heavy Metal Parking Lot, believing it had run its course.
5. UMHMPX_160527_064.JPG: The Jeff Krulik Collection at the University of Maryland Libraries A lifetime Marylander and graduate of the University of Maryland, (BA English, 1983), Jeff Krulik is an independent documentarian, videographer and cultural preservationist who has built a distinct career tapping into the rich ore of local culture in the Maryland/DC region. As a student at UMD in the early 1980s, Krulik was deeply involved with campus radio station WMUC, serving as both Music Director and General Manager. Following graduation in 1983, he went on to work as a producer for public access community television before landing a job at Discovery Networks in 1990. He left in 1995 to embark on a successful career as an independent producer and director. Heavy Metal Parking Lot remains his most iconic work to date, but he continued to earn acclaim as a producer of over three dozen documentaries and films which have screened at numerous film festivals, the Museum of Modern Art, Lincoln Center and the American Film Institute, as well as on Maryland Public Television and the Discovery Networks. In November 2015, Jeff Krulik donated his personal collection of manuscripts, research files, master tapes, raw footage, underground media and local ephemera to the Mass Media & Culture Collections within the UMD Libraries Special Collections & University Archives. These materials will be preserved and made accessible to researchers from all backgrounds.
6. UMHMPX_160527_081.JPG: My Autobiography I am a ham bone. My favorite Ceral is Kaboom. I watch TV a lot. I torture my brother. We have two dogs and one of them is a pest. We went to Florida on our vacation. I know how to play chop sticks on the piano. We have five bicycles. My bicycle has a light. I have a lot of books. I have my own room. I have a desk. I love steak. We have a color TV. I have a lot of models. I was born in Washington in 1961. I collect hot wheels. I blow my nose a lot. By Jeffrey Krulik Wright my name
7. UMHMPX_160527_089.JPG: From Tape Trading to Global Fame In 1992, a former Maryland student named Mike Heath moved to San Francisco, taking four VHS copies of Heavy Metal Parking Lot with him. One of the tapes found its way into the music community when musician Bill Bartell became a fan, and often screened it at parties. Mike Daike, soon to become a roadie for Nirvana, got a dub from Bill and brought it on the band's tour. Another copy wound up with "Colonel Bob" Schaffner of Mondo Video A-Go-Go, a video rental store in Los Angeles that specialized in unusual fare. Mondo became a big booster of the film, renting it to all manner of customers including celebrities, musicians, and filmmakers. After John received a call from film director Sofia Coppola, who wanted to use Heavy Metal Parking Lot for a cable TV show in 1994, he and Jeff dusted off the film and began to have screenings again. By the late 90s, the film became a regular staple at alternative film festivals and venues throughout the US. Today, the film continues to screen around the world, and is considered among the greatest rock documentaries of all time.
8. UMHMPX_160527_092.JPG: The Capital Centre finally closed in 2002, and was demolished later that year. Now the site of a shopping center, all that remains is a commemorative display and an endless parade of memories. John Heyn and Jeff Krulik attended and filmed the demolition on December 15, 2002. A month earlier, John had saved chunks of asphalt as mementos of the storied parking lot.
9. UMHMPX_160527_105.JPG: And the Journey Continues... Analog video and audio tape had a long history before the advent of digital video and the modern convenience of the internet. During the first two decades of Heavy Metal Parking Lot, the act of tracking down a copy of the film through video rental, tape trading, or a collector's dub solidified its legendary cult status as a sought-after touchstone. And, with its focus on fandom, the concert-going rite-of-passage, car culture, and the continued success of the band Judas Priest, Heavy Metal Parking Lot remains a unique, important and ... document of American popular culture.
10. UMHMPX_160527_108.JPG: Postcard from Filmmaker John Waters, 1987 "... your film was great -- WHAT MONSTERS! Those ladies that want to censor records would have a heart attack. And the parents of the girl that said, "I'd jump his bones" must be proud. Thanks for letting me see it -- it gave me the creeps. Best, John W."
11. UMHMPX_160527_116.JPG: Release Form June 28, 1994 Palomar Pictures, Sofia Coppola's production company
12. UMHMPX_160527_121.JPG: First Commercially-Available, Unapproved Bootleg VHS Trackshun Industries, Canada, 1996
13. UMHMPX_160527_126.JPG: Homemade Label for The Films of Jeff Krulik and Friends Potomac Video, Cleveland Park Artist: Audrey Robinson
14. UMHMPX_160527_131.JPG: Official DVD Release Factory 515, 2006
15. UMHMPX_160527_151.JPG: The Cap Centre On December 2, 1973, the Capital Centre began a nearly thirty-year presence as a defining regional landmark. Towering over the beltway, six miles from UMD's campus in Landover, Maryland, the "Cap Centre" (as it was commonly called), may have looked like an oversized potato chip, but to a generation of Maryland and Mid-Atlantic residents, it housed a lifetime of memories. Built at a cost of $18 million, the Cap Centre was a state-of-the-art venue that featured luxury sky suites, computerized ticketing, and Telscreen, the first-ever giant video screen in a sports arena. It was home to both the Washington Bullets and Washington Capitals, and host to countless other gatherings and events, especially live music. Anyone who ever attended a concert there remembers the roar of the crowd when the lights dimmed and the headliner took the stage. For years, every major-label act made the Cap Centre a tour stop, some even recording live albums during their shows. And, for an ethnography of the American teenager, there was no better field than the venue's parking lot, where legions of fans congregated to revel before concerts.
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Wikipedia Description: Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center
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The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center is a performing arts complex on the campus of the University of Maryland, College Park. The 318,000-square-foot (29,500 m2) facility, which opened in 2001, houses six performance venues; the UMD School of Music; and the UMD School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies. It also houses the Michelle Smith Performing Arts Library. The Center operates under the auspices of the University of Maryland College of Arts and Humanities.

The Center presents an annual performance season of music, dance and theatre featuring visiting artists and student/faculty artists from the performing arts academic programs. Since 2014, the venue has styled itself The Clarice, in what appears to be an effort to seem hip and modern; the introduction of this nomenclature was accompanied by a series of mostly-free-of-charge events called the NextNOW Festival near the beginning of the Fall semester. The Center also rents performance and meeting space to community groups.

The building is located on the northern side of the University of Maryland campus, off University Boulevard (MD-193) and Stadium Drive in Prince George’s County, Maryland. It is directly across the street from Capital One Field at Byrd Stadium and the 800-space Stadium Drive parking garage.

History

The Clarice Smith Center is named in honor of visual artist Clarice Smith, whose late husband Robert H. Smith (UM ’50) was a major philanthropist who supported projects in culture, business and Jewish life. As an alumnus of the University of Maryland, he made major contributions to The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center and to the Robert H. Smith School of Business.

The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center was originally conceived as an academic center for teaching the performing arts, but during the planning stages that mission evolved to include not only presentation of performances by touring artists, but also the creation of programs that focused on the people of Prince George’s County, Maryland, where the University of Maryland is located. Thus there are now occasionally events organized entirely by outside contractors, for which the Center disclaims responsibility.
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