ABSTRACT
This chapter celebrates the sometimes surprising possibilities for counter-mapping cultural heritage involving cinema under the stars and heritage from below. It explores the relations between the two: a centuries-old building and a one-night event in its car park. The chapter resonates with many themes of the Faro Convention. It links from the cinema at the mill to the sensuous experience of place via Non-Representational Theory. The Faro Convention offers a shift in heritage consciousness away from reliance upon elite experts to actively include wider heritage communities, in more open and democratic processes of defining and realising heritage. The chapter highlights how cultural resources might be mobilised as a means of place-shaping through which heritage becomes something vital and alive a moment of action. Yet, the unofficial use of the mill's car park for a site-specific pop-up cinema runs, counter to dominant or top-down notions of cultural heritage, open and engaging ways of experiencing both an historic and regenerating urban landscape.
