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Bicycle Film Festival (BFF)

Presented by Brendt Barbur and Friends and May is Bike Month at Fremont Park

May 14-May 16, 2010

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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.

FRIDAY MAY 14
Pre-Party: HOT ITALIAN 7PM-9PM

BFF BIKE SHORTS: 9PM

-ON TIME
USA 1985 | 16mm 7min.
Dir. Ari Taub
This comedy classic short, shown worldwide, marked the debut of director/screenwriter Ari Taub and captured the spirit of low budget filmmaking in New York City. Jimmy a bicycle messenger from the Albatross Courier Company, takes us through the streets and boroughs of New York to deliver a package “on time”. Braving the perilous city streets, there’s nothing Jimmy can’t handle, or is there?

-BIKE RIDE
USA 2000 | 16mm 6min.
Dir. Tom Schroeder
James rides his bike 50 miles to see his girlfriend, who dumps him. He rides home.

-A BICYCLE TRIP
Italy 2008 | Betacam 4min.
Dir. Lorenzo Veracini, Nandini Namblar, Marco Avoletta
Basel, 19 April, 1943. Dr. Albert Hoffmann, a chemist, is cycling home after a days work in the laboratory. This episode has passed into legend, associated with the discovery of the effect on the human psyche of LSD. The film tells the story of this famous ‘trip,’ imagining a psychedelic of the 40’s.

-SAFARI LONDON
UK 2009 | HD 4min.
Dir. Rick Symonds & Roddy Macintyre
Spend a whole evening with a cyclist in London condensed into a few moments with time-lapse.

-AN APOLOGY
USA 2007 | DV 3min.
Dir. Neistat Brothers
The Neistat Brothers make a movie for the BFF every year. Here is an apology.

-PIXEL GEAR BIKES!!! RIDE SAFE, RIDE FAST, RIDE FREE
Spain 2009 | Video 1min.
Dir. Simon Bericua Lopez
Pixel Gear Bikes!!!! is an animation based on Paperboy 2 video game sprites.

-POLO MANUAL
UK 2009 | DVCPRO HD 10min.
Dir. Brendan McNamee
Like an instruction manual on bike polo, but with the pages our of order.

-BAREND JAM
UK 2006 | DV 3min.
Dir. Alex Rankin
A fun BMX short from the UK.

-KEIRIN
Japan/Italy 2008 | HD 5min.
Dir. Giovanni Giommi
A beautifully shot portrait of Japanese Professional Track Racers.

-WHAT’S A GIRL TO DO
UK 2007 | Video 3min.
Dir. Dougal Wilson
Music video

-BELLE EPOCH
Italy/USA 2008 | Video 3min.
Dir. Robert Chynoweth
Italian cyclist Giuliano Calore (aka “Cyclist of the Impossible”) rides on Europe’s steepest mountain roads playing different musical instruments along the way.

-SOME THINGS RIDE A BICYCLE
USA 2006 | Video 1min.
Dir. Chris Jolly
This is a series of chalkboard animations of various funny objects riding bicycles.

-SKI BOYS
Canada 2006 | Super8 8min.
Dir. Benny Zenga
The last reels of the Ski Boys, which document their inventive exploits in rural Ontario during the early 70’s.

-BROADWAY BOMBER/BRIDGE BATTLE/MONSTERTRACK
USA 2009 | HD 14min.
Dir. Lucas Brunelle
Lucas never ceases to amaze viewers with the first person perspective video from his helmet-cams. Close calls and dangerous streets shows urban cycling at its finest.

-MACRAMENTO
USA 2010 | HD 5min.
Dir. Colby Elrick
Macaframa co-director and rider Colby Elrick presents this Sacramento premier. Macramento features Sacramento and other Norther California notables, including John Cardiel, Squirrel, and Ted Shred.

-ANIMA D’ACCIAIO
(SOUL OF STEEL)
USA/Italy 2009 | HD 11min.
Dir. Daniel Leeb
A Portrait of the legendary Italian Frame Builder Giovanni Pelizzoli
aka “Ciocc” . Ciocc shares his wisdom and life story while hand
building a revolutionary new frame for urban fixed gear cycling. Ciocc demonstrates that the tradition and craft of frame building’s Golden age can be re-born and push the technical frontier of Cycling’s future. Also feaures Ed “Wonka” La Forte and Antonio Colombo with an original soundtrack by Blonde Redhead’s Amedeo Pace and Simone Pace.

AFTER PARTY: HOT ITALIAN (1627 16th Street)

SATURDAY MAY 15- Fremont Park (16th and Q)

BIKE SCAVENGER HUNT: 5PM-7PM
Bring your friends and your bikes!

MUSIC IN THE PARK: 7PM-9PM

BFF FEATURE PRESENTATION: 9PM

-MADE IN QUEENS
USA 2008 | Video 10min.
Dir. Joe Stevens & Nicolas Randall
Last summer in Queens, NY a group of imaginative tinkerers from Trinidad created something no one had ever seen before: enormous stereo systems jury rigged onto ordinary bmx bikes. Traveling together they treat the neighborhood to an outrageous impromptu music and dance party on wheels.

-WHERE ARE YOU GO
Canada 2009 | 60min.
Dir. Benny Zenga & Brian Vernor
Four months on a bicycle between Cairo, Egypt and Cape Town, South Africa en route with the Tour d’ Afrique, the world’s longest bicycle race and expedition. Traveling more than 70 miles per day, 50 racers and expedition riders experienced the boundless Nubian desert of Sudan, the great majesty of Victoria Falls, and finally the cold rush of the Atlantic Ocean. The 7,000 mile expedition is a constant adventure full of playfulness and mysterious beauty, and is a testament to the endurance of human curiosity.

-URBAN VELODROME AFTER PARTY- feat. DJ Ted Shred
The Venue (15th and R)

SUNDAY MAY 16- Fremont Park (16th and Q)

BIKES IN THE PARK: 1PM-6PM
Enjoy refreshments and beer while watching the Tour.