The secret society behind the subterranean cinema recently discovered by police in Paris have come forward. According to a Guardian article, the mission of the group, called La Mexicaine de la Perforation, is to "reclaim and transform disused city spaces for the creation of zones of expression for free and independent art."
"There are so many underground networks – the quarries, the metro, the collective heating, the electricity, the sewers – and each is the responsibility of a different bureaucracy… Urban explorers are the only people who, between us, know it all. We move between each network. We know where they link up – often, it's us who made the link. The authorities, the police, town hall, they don't know a hundredth, a thousandth, of what's down there."
