Bicycle Film Festival: Urban Bike Shorts

Brendt Barbur, Founding Festival Director, was impelled to start the Bicycle Film Festival ten years ago when he was hit by a bus while riding his bike in New York City. He insisted on turning his negative experience into a positive one. The BFF has been a major catalyst for the urban bike movement, one of  the most powerful and culturally relevant forces of the last decade.  Other activities throughout the four-day event include races, group  rides, and numerous parties.

FLASH BACK MONSTER TRACK
USA 2010 | hD 7 min
Dir. Daniel Leeb
New York City's finest urban cyclists compete in the world's premiere underground street race, tempting fate on
fixed gear bikes.

TOKYO TO OSAKA
USA, Japan 2010 | HD 13 min
Dir. Nic Hill
Twelve amateur American fixed gear cyclists and their 400-mile journey through the Japanese countryside.

Tokyo JITENSHA
USA, Japan 2009 | Digital SLR 1 min
Dir. Steven Day
Bicycling through the city at the speed of light.

BUILT
USA 2010 | HD 4 min
Dir. Sara Kinney
A conversation with the frame builder Lance Mercado of Squarebuilt.

COURIER EFFECT
Germany, France, Spain 2009 | Mini DV 10 min
Dir. Andrew Crighton
Portraits of bicycle messenger family members from Barcelona to Paris to Berlin.

GRIME PRESENTS
USA 2010 | HD 7 min
Dir. Mike Schmitt & Ed Laforte
Two of the most talented street riders today, Mike Schmitt and WONKA kill it like no others in the world.

DAY LABOR
USA 2010 | HD 10 min
Dir. Brendan O'Neill Kohl & Minka Farthing- Kohl
A short film about bike messengers, day laborers and outsourcing gone wild.

MINI VELODROME DE BORDEAUX
France 2010 | HD 3 min
Dir. Fontas Niko
A glimpse into a French velodrome through a tilt-shift lens yields beautifully mesmerizing effects.

BUSHVELD BIKE MESSENGER
South Africa 2009 | HD 5 min
Dir. Boyd Varty
Nothing, not even elephants, giraffes, rhinos or wildebeests can stop the Bushveld bike messenger from making his delivery.

LUCAS BRUNELLE
LINE OF SIGHT
USA 2010 | HD/16mm 30 min
Dir. Benny Zenga & Lucas Brunelle
Lucas Brunelle travels the globe documenting alleycat races and every year he presents a new film at the BFF. This year for our tenth anniversary Lucas teams up with Benny Zenga to produce a film that takes it to another level. Lucas is the undisputed master of documenting alleycats. From the vantage point of his custom helmet-cam his footage serves as
insight into the best urban riders in the world in their natural element. Now Benny Zenga turns the camera back on Lucas Brunelle to bring a new dimension to this rare talent and 'international man of mystery'.

Advance tickets can be purchased online for all films.  If a screening is not sold out, tickets will also be sold at the door that night.