Muscle Cars! Spandex! Mullets and frizzy perms!Heavy Metal Parking Lot just may be the quintessential document of embarrassing culture in the 1980s. A real-life Spinal Tap filmed in a Maryland concert arena’s parking lot in 1986, it’s an unvarnished anthropological study of American headbangers in all their glory. Although he’s best known for this notorious short documentary, Washington, DC-based Jeff Krulik has produced a number of other fascinating and offbeat documentaries dealing with arcane pop culture. Krulik finds unusual people in normal situations or normal people in unusual situations and quickly zeros in on the ridiculous. In addition to Heavy Metal Parking Lot (1986, 16 min.), this special program also includes KING OF PORN (1996, 7 min.), I CREATED LANCELOT LINK (1999, 15 min.), OBSESSED WITH JEWS (2000, 8 min.), HARRY POTTER PARKING LOT (2000, 7 min.), and HITLER’S HAT (2003, 47 min.). Tickets $10; $8 members and students. Advance tickets are available at http://dryden.eastmanhouse.org, at (585) 271-3361 ext. 295, the Museum’s admissions desk, or Dryden Theatre box office. No Take-10 tickets or passes.

The Experimental Television Center’s Presentation Funds Program is supported by the New York State Council on the Arts, a public agency.