Underground Cinema takes on a new meaning

The police in Paris have made a curious discovery beneath the city.
A fully equipped subterranean cinema has been discovered below one of the city's museums.
Complete with an electric-powered screen and a bar, it was operated by what might be called an underground movement.
One of the artists and photographers who founded this underground movement is Patrick Alk, who says the discovery of the cinema is only one tiny example of what is actually going on beneath the Paris pavements.
"We did everything - from dance festivals, theatre, artists' happenings, exhibitions. We had a free kingdom underneath Paris, and the places there are really closed places, secret places."
Or at least they were until a recent police training exercise, when the Paris police stumbled upon the cinema.
Rather appropriately, it was located underneath the Trocadero complex, which includes the Museum of Cinema.
It was guarded by a camera, which set off a tape-recording of barking dogs to scare off intruders into this secret world. Inside were bottles of whisky, and copies of 1950s and 1960s "films noir".


Now that is the greatest example of underground culture and DIY that I have ever heard about.

Yeah, Paris has a fantastic underground art/activism scene, both literally and figuratively. Some of the best art galleries/museums are giant squats that have become fixtures.

Wow, people caring about getting their creations to the public enough to actually DO something about it. Wonder what that's like.