the commentator - Bicycle Film Festival

15TH ANNIVERSARY
NEW YORK
JUNE 25-28
PROGRAM 2
9:00 pm
PROGRAM 3
4:00 pm
THE COMMENTATOR - WORK IN
PROGRESS
USA, France 2015 | 60min.
Dir. Brendt Barbur
UNA PIZZA BIKE SHOW
USA 2015 | 10min.
Dir. Wilson McCourtney
A Conversation With:
Director Brendt Barbur
Cinematographer Lucas Brunelle
Cinematographer Brian Vernor
Hosted by Mike Spriggs
In 1976 Celebrated Danish Filmmaker
Jorgen Leth directed the legendary sports
and cycling film, A Sunday in Hell, about
the Paris Roubaix cycling race. It defined
a genre and helped put the grueling ParisRoubaix on the global sporting map.
Leth now shares his passion for cycling
annually as a commentator for this race
for Danish television.
Over 35 years later Director Brendt
Barbur landed in France with a 30 person
international film crew to create a film
as an ode to Leth and his film. Seventeen
camera persons turned the lens on the
race, the spectators, and the atmosphere.
The Commentator reveals the dedication
and passion it takes to cover one of the
world’s largest sporting events. Leth’s
warm and candid dialogue with Albert
Maysles and his live commentating are
threaded with a view of the days leading
up to the race and the race itself.
The Commentator also profiles Kristof
Ramon a race photographer as he chases
on motorcycle and on foot the best
cyclists in the world from spot to spot over
the 250 kilometer course to get “the one”
photo.
The race finds itself mirroring the past,
as three time champion Tom Boonen
enters the race with an opportunity
to tie the record of 4 victories. Cycling
legends Roger De Vlaeminck and Eddy
Mercks in Leth’s A Sunday In Hell enter
the 1976 race with the same goal. The
Commentator takes us into the world
of sacrifice, passion and love revealed
through incredible imagery, the action
on the ground and epical words of Leth.
All this action is paced by a score by
the legendary New York band Blonde
Redhead.
MEXICO CITY
bicyclefilmfestival.com
The Bicycle Film Festival is a celebration of
bicycles through film, art and music. Presented
by Brendt Barbur and friends and dedicated
to the loving memory of his mother Toneta.
PRIMAVERA 2015 - SEMANA SANTA
New York, Singapore, Stockholm, Gainesville, Richmond, Durham,
Quebec City, Paris, Quito, San Francisco, Shanghai, Tokyo, Mexico
City, London, Los Angeles, Cuenta, Sao Paolo, Cape Town, Santiago,
Milano,
Madrid,
JUEVES
2 Bogota, Brighton
VIERNES 3
• CONFERENCIA DE PRENSA
•OPEN FORUM + WORKSHOP
For the most up to date information about the Bicycle Film Festival
•BIKE MOVIES
• BFF WORLD MUSEUM
and related events go to bicyclefilmfestival.com
Bikes, art and music
•DIVE BAR PARTY
THURSDAY
25
OPENING PARTY TBA
AFTER PARTY
PRESENTED BY CHALET
LUCAS BRUNELLE GOES TO CHERNOBYL
Check BFF site for location and details
FRIDAY
26
BIKE MOVIES
PROGRAM 1
7:00 pm
SÁBADO 4
DOMINGO 5
•BIKE MOVIES
•BIKE MOVIES
•BFF TAKE THE CITY
BLOOMINGTON LIL 500
USA 2015 | 2min.
Dir. Matt Gee
• BFF PICNIC
Found footage of the iconic Little 500
CYCLIQUE / CYCLIC
Switzerland 2015 | 71min.
Dir. Frédéric Favre
All films screen at
Anthology Film Archives
A film about finding your place in the world and the difficulty of growing up.
32 2nd
Ave.
at 2nd St.
LOS
DETALLES
DE NUESTRAS FIESTAS SERÁN ANUNCIADOS EN NUESTRAS
REDES
SOCIALES
Y EN LA
NUESTROS
ASOCIADOS.
Caroline
has finished
her education
as aDE
journalist
but is struggling
with the idea of
Admission price per program $12
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$20
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Film Festival
es una celebración de las bicicletas a través
BFF NY Festival Pass $40
del cine, arte y música. Producido por Brend Barbur y amigos,
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working in an office from now on. Raph is not intending to quit his passion at all but feels
that this self-exploitation has to come to an end. Matila is just about to begin his new job
and to discover this unique world. Immersed in the world of the bicycle messengers of
Lausanne,
‘CYCLIQUE’
us participate
in the lives Chicago,
of these three
messengers
who all find
Austin, Basel,
Bristol,lets
Buenos
Aires, Capetown,
Firenze,
Helsinki,
themselves at a turning point at this very moment. Is it possible to grow old in this strengthHong
Kong,
Istanbul,
Lisboa,
London,
Los
Ángeles,
Madrid,
Mexico
City,
sapping job? Is it feasible «to be free and happy for a lifetime» as Raph is planning to be?
Or
is the Milano,
process of
older
automatically
leading
to compromises
and betrayal of
Miami,
NCgrowing
Triangle,
New
York, Portland,
Quebec
City, Richmond,
the ideals set when young? ‘CYCLIQUE’ takes us on a rollercoaster of decisions and lets us
Rio de Janeiro,
San
San
Francisco,
Sao in
Paulo,
Stockholm,
Sydney,
participate
in some
ofDiego,
the most
intimate
moments
the lives
of Caroline,
Raph and Matila.
Tallin, Tokyo
IN SEARCH OF THE STORM
SATURDAY
27
STRAVA AND THE BFF
PRESENT
DATA, ART AND THE
FUTURE OF CYCLING
12:00 pm FREE
Cycling has inspired the artists,
filmmakers, photographers, writers and
musicians, all of whom have created works
for the Bicycle Film Festival during the
past 15 years. In turn, their contributions
have helped to shape the way we ride and
the culture of cycling around the world.
This circle of inspiration that flows
between cycling and art has a parallel
in the data that Strava athletes record,
which they use to help unlock their
potential and the potential of their
communities.
FEATURED PANELISTS
YVONNE BAMBRICK--Urban Cycling
Advocate, Author
JALEEL BUNTON--Musician, Tv On The
Radio
MATT SEATON--Author, Journalist--New
York Times, Rouleur
PAUL STEELY WHITE--Executive Director
Transportation Alternatives
CHERYL DUNN-Artist & Filmmaker
MARK SHAW-CTO, Co-founder Strava
Moderated by Andrew Vontz -Journalist,
Strava Cycling Brand Manager
THE COMMENTATOR
This is a story about legendary Pizza Chef
Anthony Mangieri of Una Pizza Napoletana
and handmade steel frame bicycle builder
Sean Walling of Soulcraft Bicycles.
LINO MESSORI – AT THE SPEED OF HEART
USA 2014 | 10min.
Dir. Luca Campanale
Bespoke Italian frame builder with many
talents speaks about his life and meaning
of bicycle.
BANH BAO BIKES (‘FRIED DUMPLING
BIKES’)
Vietnam 2014 | 24min.
Dir. Brenda Mattick
Mr Tuan, Vice-President of the Old & New
Bicycle Club, rescues, restores and rides
vintage bicycles from Vietnam’s colonial
era.
WALLAS ON VELOS
Belgium 2014 | 23min.
Dir. Alton Valadares
Four ordinary men trying to make an honest
living on their bicycles. The film follows
a day in the working life of four men in
Mumbai.
COMES WITH BAGGAGE
USA 2015 | 18min.
Dir. Dominic Gill
A history of bicycle travel from
boneshakers to bikepacking.
PROGRAM 4
6:00 pm
TRIBES: BRONX BMX
USA 2015 | 2min.
Dir. Danielle Levitt
Portraits of BMXers in the Bronx
GHOST PELOTON
UK 2014 | 12min.
Dir. Mark Huskisson
Created for the grand depart of the Tour de
France 2014 from Yorkshire, Ghost Peloton
fuses performance cycling with athletic
choreography performed by Phoenix Dance
Theatr. Each performer was illuminated
using LED light suits, which change colour,
flash-rate and luminosity. It’s epic public
art, operating at the grandest scale,
where physical surroundings become
an open canvas carrying a new visual
language, expressing mood and movement,
comprised of form, colour and line.
SUNDAY
28
BIKE MOVIES
PROGRAM 7
2:00 pm
BROKENFLO
UK 2013 | 10min.
Dir. Patrick Tarrant
Strangers on a shallow plane…Brokenflo is
an intermittent serial portrait that explores
the rhythm and deep structure of cyclists
involved in their daily commute.
HOLLAND BY HANDCYCLE
USA 2014 | 7min.
Dir. Topher Downham
Quadriplegic Topher Downham and his
friend Bryan Keith take a bicycle journey
around the Netherlands.
ROKURO-CROSS
Japan 2014 | 4min.
Dir. Mai Matoba
Performing Art Video by a potter and a
cyclist.
UP UP UP
UK 2015 | 3min.
Dir. Thom Heald
Hill climbing is one of the original tests of a
cyclists skill.
STAY ALIVE
USA 2015 | 3min.
Dir. Cordell Murray
BICYCLE CROSSING OF LAKE SAINT-JEAN
Canada 2014 | 11min.
Dir. Ken Allaire
Living portraits of living people and the
bikes they ride.
Bicycle Crossing of Lac Saint-Jean. A group
of twenty cyclists attempted to ride over a
frozen Lake Saint-Jean.
PROGRAM 5
8:00 pm
PROGRAM 4 REPEAT
PROGRAM 6
10:00 pm
15TH ANNIVERSARY GREATEST HITS
BIKES ROCK
AFTER PARTY TBA
PRESENTED BY CREATORS CONNECT
Randonées are week long adventures on
two wheels. Riders cross the challenging
paths of the Alps and the Dolomites.
VENI BICI SUSHI – A BICYCLE JOURNEY
Italy 2015 | 77min.
Dir. Matteo Inzani
L’Eroica vintage bike ride which started in
the Chianti area, held every first Sunday
of October has now spread to the UK and
Japan. This film is a view on these three
vintage rides which carry the heroic soul of
the cyclist.
PROGRAM 9
6:00 pm
BMX PROGRAM
PRESENTED BY SISTER SESSION
This is consistently one of the most popular
screenings at BFF NY.
YOUR BODY POWERED
Estonia 2015 | 2min.
Dir. Priit Palumaa
Biker Elizabeth Rojas details her journey
from New York City to Montauk.
In April 26 1986 an explosion at the
Chernobyl power plant in Ukraine sent
radioactive particles into the atmosphere
which spread over much of Soviet Union
and Europe. Many years later, Lucas
Brunelle and friends return to this
exclusion zone to explore via bicycle.
RANDONÉE
UK, Italy 2015 | 3min.
Dir. Lukasz Cholewiak, Hektor Kowalski
One man’s cycling journey across the
United States of America.
Four talented women take a shot at the fast
and dangerous Redhook Crit Women’s Race.
LUCAS BRUNELLE GOES TO CHERNOBYL
USA, Ukraine 2015 | 37min.
Dir. Lucas Brunelle
A moonlit downhill ride at the base of the
Matterhorn in Switzerland.
PROGRAM 10
8:00 pm
MEET ME IN MONTAUK
USA 2015 | 3min.
Dir. Elizabeth Rojas, Anthony Farina
Fixed On Fixed is a short film clip profiling
five female bicycle riders and their love of
riding fixed gear.
MOONRIDERS
Switzerland 2015 | 2min.
Dir. Christian Mülhauser
EAST TO WEST
USA 2014 | 8min.
Dir. Dwayne Burgess
ROAD TO REDHOOK
USA 2015 | 8min.
Dir. Serena Rio
FIXED ON FIXED
Australia 2014 | 10min.
Dir. Raechel Harding
PROGRAM 8
4:00 pm
ZOE’S STORY
UK 2013 | 3min.
Dir. Philip Berman
When a young woman mysteriously
collapses on London’s busiest shopping
street London Ambulance’s cycle response
unit have only minutes to save her life.
SOUTH AMERICAN CHO-LOW
Brazil, USA 2014 | 16min.
Dir. Phuong-Cac Nguyen
East L.A. lowrider culture and cholo
style find their way to Brazil through
one man’s obsession, plus a look at the
positive impact the culture is making on
disadvantaged kids living in Sao Paulo’s
slums.
CYKLISTEN -THE RIDER
Sweden 2013 | 16min.
Dir. Dan Anders Carrigan
David is a professional cyclist at the end
of his career who’s at home celebrating
christmas. During his stay the news gets
out that he’s tested positive for blood
doping and faces a lifetime ban. Suddenly
his whole life is a race against time.
An ode to the best means of transportation.
Cycling.A lone cyclist roams through the
empty dark city, reminiscing about all
the fun he had a kid, asking why so many
people mindlessly abandon their bike
when they grow up. But cycling will never
be replaced and his buddies are here to
remind him that.
IN SEARCH OF THE STORM
India 2015 | 8min.
Dir. Shaktiraj Singh Jadeja
In Search of the Storm is a story of India’s
first fat biking expedition that took them to
the last village of India, Chitkul at the IndoTibetan border in the dead of the Himalayan
winter.
RED, GREEN, BLUE, BLACK
USA 2015 | 2min.
Dir. Harry Zernike
Roller races, New York-style.
I MUST GO
Canada 201 | 3min.
Dir. Sindre Ulvik Péladeau
A young man leaves his daily routine for a
journey through the wilderness.
THE RIDER AND THE WOLF
USA 2015 | 60min.
Dir. Nathan Ward
The Rider and the Wolf is the story of Mike
Rust, the mountain bike Hall of Fame
cyclist who disappeared without a trace in
Colorado.
AFTER PARTY TBA
Check BFF site for location and details