Bikes are awesome, they’re good for the environment and when you ride them you look and feel better too! It makes sense then to celebrate the awesomeness of bikes with a film festival:
The Bicycle Film Festival celebrates the bicycle. We are into all styles of bikes and biking. If you can name it-Tall Bike Jousting, Track Bikes, BMX, Alleycats, Critical Mass, Bike Polo, Cycling to Recumbents- we’ve probably either ridden or screened it. What better way to celebrate these lifestyles than through art, film, music and performance? We bring together all aspects of bicycling together to advocate its ability to transport us in many ways. Ultimately the Fest is about having a good time. [BFF08]
The film program I am looking forward to the most would have to be BIKE SCENE IT : Matthew Modine and friends
Where Modine and pals all screen some of their favorite bicycle scenes from movies - very cool!
Also of note are a series of shorter films:
HISTORY OF BICYCLE WITH NO NAME
Italy 2007 | DV/Super 8 36min.
Dir. Simone Cariello and Luca Puglia
A bike ride through different worlds starting from the bike collector, to the passionate ciclofficina (cycle-assembly shop) or the second-hand dealer, finally ending up with the bike “politician”. There are many set-ups as to the different ways to experience a bike in a city such as Milano, the only leit-motiv: grease under the nails.WHITE SNOW, BLACK ICE: CYCLING OVER LAKE BAIKAL
Russia 2006 | Video 32min.
Dir. Andrei Rozov and Gleb Stepanov
Beautiful landscapes abound in this film about cycling over Lake Baikal, Siberia, during the winter.ANGELS DIE IN THE SOIL
Iran / Iraq / Kurdistan 2008 | HD 30min.
Dir. Babak Amini
An Iraqi-Kurdish girl earns a living for her ill father by selling Iranian soldiers’ bones that are remains from the Iran-Iraq war. One day she comes across a terrorist incident involving an American soldier on her way back home. She involves herself in the incident by trying to help him.
Overall though, the weekend should be film and bike filled fun!
to learn about Matthew Modine’s awesome organization Bicycle for a Day and be sure to watch one of my favortie bike movie moments below and of course… read on:
