{"id":881,"date":"2013-12-20T01:48:29","date_gmt":"2013-12-20T06:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bikeforest.com\/?p=881"},"modified":"2013-12-20T01:50:40","modified_gmt":"2013-12-20T06:50:40","slug":"bicycle-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bikeforest.com\/?p=881","title":{"rendered":"Bicycle Movies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently received a screener copy of Stephen Auerbach&#8217;s Bicycle Movies. Bicycle Movies Volume 1 is a compilation of 22 bicycle themed short films from all over the world.\r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\r\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Bicycle Movies - A New Film by Stephen Auerbach\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Jb5_qMKPhc4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\r\n<\/div><\/figure>\r\n\r\n<p>\r\nMany of the films in this collection are available on Youtube, so I had seen a few of them before. However, it was enjoyable to watch them all together in DVD format. The 22 films are:\r\n<\/p><p>\r\n<strong>The Man Who Lived On His Bike<\/strong>: I thought this movie was great. Making this movie must have been a lot of work, but at the same time, I&#8217;ll bet it was a lot of fun. After watching this movie, you&#8217;ll probably want to watch Guillaume Blanchet&#8217;s <a title=\"Making of The Man Who Lived On His Bike\" href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/38060089\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Making of&#8221;<\/a> video as well.\r\n<\/p><p>\r\n<strong>Love, Life, Bike<\/strong>: is a film\u00a0by <a title=\"Ryan Van Duzer\" href=\"https:\/\/duzertv.com\" target=\"_blank\">Ryan Van Duzer<\/a>. Ryan Van Duzer claims to eat 3 to 5 burritos per day and likes to run races in his Scooby Doo outfit. I was a bit disappointed that this particular film didn&#8217;t feature any such hijinks. Ryan now hosts his own bicycle touring show on the Travel Channel. Here&#8217;s hoping he&#8217;ll break out the Scooby Doo outfit for one of those episodes.\r\n<\/p><p>\r\n<strong>Bike Thieves<\/strong>: by <a title=\"Toryn Westcott\" href=\"https:\/\/www.torynwestcott.com\" target=\"_blank\">Toryn Westcott<\/a>\u00a0is a funny little piece with some amusing green screen moments. Toryn himself might have the funniest part when he appears on a scooter in the final scene.\r\n<\/p><p>\r\n<strong>Ironclad Racing Team<\/strong>: by Will Walle provides a glimpse into the world of the Ironclad Cycling Team. By presenting the team as a diverse cast of characters that share a unique bond through their experiences on and off the bike, this film succeeds in describing most cycling clubs and serves as inspiration for anyone to become more involved in their own communities.\r\n<\/p><p>\r\n<strong>Florida Ghost Bike<\/strong>: by Tony Blazejack\u00a0explains the phenomenon of ghost bikes around the world, but focuses on the ghost bike and memorial ride for 44 year old Christophe Le Canne in Key Biscayne, Florida. It is a sad, but informative film.\r\n<\/p><p>\r\n<strong>Winter&#8217;s Edge<\/strong>: is a film by John Amun\u00e9t, featuring poetry by his brother\u00a0Samu Ainesmaa. John, is an avid winter cyclist from Finland. He got tired of hearing people claim they can&#8217;t ride in the winter. So he went out with a friend\u00a0and shot this just\u00a0to remind people that it doesn&#8217;t matter; sleet or rain or sunshine, the buzz and the feel of the ride is still there. Amen!\r\n<\/p><p>\r\n<strong>Dreams Of A BMX Rider<\/strong>: is a Red Bull MEDIA HOUSE production\u00a0featuring Michael \u201cBerry\u201d Beran, the production values are impressive and the riding is beyond impressive.\r\n<\/p><p>\r\n<strong>Focal Point<\/strong>: by Bjorn Fisher presents a profile of mountain unicycling pioneer <a title=\"Kris Holm\" href=\"https:\/\/krisholm.com\" target=\"_blank\">Kris Holm<\/a>. The footage of Kris riding obstacles in downtown Vancouver and on the\u00a0North Shore is amazing. Listening to Kris articulate his philosophy on life and riding nicely rounds out the film.\r\n<\/p><p>\r\n<strong>Right Hook<\/strong>: is a revenge fantasy by <a title=\"Mike Vogel\" href=\"https:\/\/mikevogel.com\" target=\"_blank\">Mike Vogel<\/a>. This movie was a bit extreme for\u00a0my mild mannered sensibilities, but I&#8217;m still a fan of Mike&#8217;s work. Particularly his movie <a title=\"Doored\" href=\"https:\/\/mikevogel.com\/bike-movies\" target=\"_blank\">Doored &#8211; Fractured Skull, Broken Hearts<\/a>.\r\n<\/p><p>\r\n<strong>Confessions Of A Pedalphile<\/strong>: SNL&#8217;s canteen boy went there, and so did the hilarious fourth season of Arrested Development, so why can&#8217;t\u00a0Edward Valibus Phillips? Who am I to judge?\r\n<\/p><p>\r\n<strong>There&#8217;s A Flower In My Pedal<\/strong>: by <a title=\"Andrea Dorfman\" href=\"https:\/\/andreadorfman.com\" target=\"_blank\">Andrea Dorfman<\/a> was runner up for\u00a0best short at TIFF, 2005. It&#8217;s a poem accompanied by instrumental music and animation. It&#8217;s amazing!\r\n<\/p><p>\r\n<strong>Scrapertown<\/strong>: by Drea Cooper &amp; Zackary Canepari is beautifully shot and edited\u00a0and the story is inspiring.\u00a0I appreciated Tyrone &#8220;Babye Champ&#8221; Stevenson&#8217;s philosophy behind Scraper bikes. This film came out in 2010 and it&#8217;s nice to see that Champ has been getting some recognition for his work since then. In 2011, he was named\u00a0one of ten &#8220;GlobeChangers&#8221; by the Jefferson Awards for Public Service. Last winter, he was a customizer-in-residence at the <a title=\"Customizer-in-residence\" href=\"https:\/\/museumca.org\/on-view\/wecustomize\/\" target=\"_blank\">Oakland Museum of California<\/a>. To see\u00a0some more recent\u00a0scraper bikes footage,\u00a0watch\u00a0<a title=\"Scraper Bikes: Bike 4 Life Ride\" href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/61603754\" target=\"_blank\">Scraper Bikes: &#8220;Bike 4 Life Ride&#8221;<\/a>.\r\n<\/p><p>\r\n<strong>Fixie Boy<\/strong>: is a music video featuring <a title=\"Maya Dorn\" href=\"https:\/\/mayadorn.com\" target=\"_blank\">Maya Dorn<\/a> as MC Ladyfinger and the band Sweet Snacks. The song is quite catchy and the costumes in this video are hilarious.\r\n<\/p><p>\r\n<strong>How I Learned To Stop Worrying<\/strong>: by Winston Zirjacks is an examination of heckling in cyclo-cross and downhill races.\u00a0The film, and the heckling that it portrays is clearly all in good fun.\r\n<\/p><p>\r\n<strong>A Bicycle Trip<\/strong>: by Lorenzo Veracini, Nandini Nambiar and\u00a0Marco Avoletta is a beautifully animated film\u00a0based on the\u00a0true\u00a0story of a\u00a0bicycle ride taken in April, 1943\u00a0by Albert Hofmann the first person to synthesize, ingest, and learn of the psychedelic effects of\u00a0LSD.\r\n<\/p><p>\r\n<strong>Performance<\/strong>: by <a title=\"Robin Moore's Youtube channel\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/RobinMoore\" target=\"_blank\">Robin Moore<\/a>\u00a0exploded in August 2009 when <a title=\"Lance Armstrong Tweets It's all about Performance\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lancearmstrong\/status\/3296646357\" target=\"_blank\">Lance Armstrong tweeted about it<\/a>. Since then, we&#8217;ve learned that not everything Lance said was the truth, but he wasn&#8217;t lying about this. It really is all about Performance! Robin Moore is now the co-founder of\u00a0<a title=\"Plus M Productions\" href=\"https:\/\/plusmproductions.com\" target=\"_blank\">Plus M Productions<\/a>\u00a0which produced a great <a title=\"The Enlightened Cyclist\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/lWKDQnTAZno\" target=\"_blank\">promo video<\/a> for <a title=\"BikeSnobNYC\" href=\"https:\/\/bikesnobnyc.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">BikeSnobNYC<\/a>&#8216;s <a title=\"The Enlightened Cyclist\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chroniclebooks.com\/titles\/the-enlightened-cyclist.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Enlightened Cyclist<\/a>.\r\n<\/p><p>\r\n<strong>Bikes In Columbia<\/strong>: by Joshua Rainwater is a film about the perils\u00a0of cycling in Columbia, South Carolina. I appreciated how all the cyclists interviewed seemed to be representative of the majority of reasonable non adversarial community members just trying to get to where they&#8217;re going.\r\n<\/p><p>\r\n<strong>Villainous Heist<\/strong>: by Lukas Pecinka was shot in Alice Springs, Australia: a place I never would have guessed would have so many skilled unicyclists.\r\n<\/p><p>\r\n<strong>Bike Vs. Boyfriends<\/strong>: by Marin Tockman &amp; Emily Demarest\u00a0takes what might otherwise be a disposable top ten e-mail forward but bolsters it with a timelapse video featuring some\u00a0cleverly drawn\u00a0illustrations.\r\n<\/p><p>\r\n<strong>I Rode My Bicycle Through My Fears<\/strong>: by John Akre is a poem set to animation.\r\n<\/p><p>\r\n<strong>Local: Riders On The Storm<\/strong>: by Michalis Aristomenopoulos is a film about Local Athens, a group of people into cycling, their city and art.\r\n<\/p><p>\r\n<strong>No Handed Bike Moves<\/strong>: is\u00a0a professional display of 50 No Handed Bike Moves, many of them are pretty clever.\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently received a screener copy of Stephen Auerbach&#8217;s Bicycle Movies. Bicycle Movies Volume 1 is a compilation of 22 bicycle themed short films from all over the world. Many of the films in this collection are available on Youtube, so I had seen a few of them before. 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