Lead Artist May Bukowski painted this 30 ft tall building to transform it into an outdoor movie theater with PaleFO Cinema.
PaleFO Cinema acts as a conduit to encourage positive recreations in high-needs communities while addressing the diminishment of movie theaters. We aim to amplify marginalized voices and empower disenfranchised communities by leveraging the potential of the cinematic experience through participatory community film curation. The ultimate goal is to build a cinema where it doesn’t exist and a cinema culture where it is needed most, to support practices in creative expression, storytelling, civic-cultural involvement and community life.
In summer 2025 PaleFO Cinema will launched the first ever cinema mural where people of all ages can enjoy access to curated and community voted films outdoors spaces. The goal is to expand to every neighborhood that is currently identified as a cinema desert – a neighborhood without a movie theater.
Sponsored in part by Projectivity and Dept of Cultural Affairs.
