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Monday, 31 October 2011 14:19

Written by Barbara Vancheri

One of the opening night movies at the Three Rivers Film Festival is called "Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles."

Now that might have you saying, "Huh?" but if you went in search of Batman Downtown, you probably walked right over these tiles with cryptic messages embedded in the streets of some major American and South American cities at busy intersections.

We will have a review on Thursday but art critic Mary Thomas and I went in search of them today — it's a two-person job as one stands in the middle of an intersection and photographs the tile while the other watches for cars — and found them. The movie will play at 7 p.m. Friday at Pittsburgh Filmmakers' Melwood Screening Room.

They are located at Smithfield and Forbes near Macy's and CVS; Smithfield and Oliver near Saks Fifth Avenue; Smithfield and Sixth, near Brooks Brothers; and Forbes and Ross, the hardest cluster to find.
Along the way, we also spotted a person in a gorilla costume on Smithfield. It is Halloween, after all.

The photos are in the order listed above:

Photos by Barbara Vancheri, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

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