From 26 to 30 November the Italian leg of the Bicycle Film Festival, in
tour around the world to celebrate the pride cycle through film, art and music
. Saturday, November 29 largest dance party in an underground garage with attached ring
for urban indoor cycling.
Portraits of urban cyclists, animation, video art, music videos, historical documentaries, fiction,
travel stories, racing epic: the Bicycle Film Festival is fast approaching towards
Milan, estimated arrival November 26, with a trail of musical evenings , an art exhibition,
road races, cyclocross urban and a large garage closing party, with dance music in a
underground parking and indoor ring for urban cycling.
Born eight years in the great forge the avant-garde New York film that is
the Anthology Film Archive, the Bicycle Film Festival is an expression of an international community of urban cyclists
, filmmakers and artists united by an intense exchange of ideas, stories and images. The 2008 tour of
BFF touches 17 cities: New York, Toronto, Minneapolis, Los Angeles, San Francisco,
Chicago, Boston, Tokyo, Austin, London, Vienna, Zurich, Paris, Sydney, Melborune, Milan and
Portland.
"The urban cyclist is one of the heroes of our day: agile, lightweight, quiet, urban, post-petroleum
. When several years we will look at the urban culture of our decade,
will see that the movement of cyclists is one of the most distinctive of this century. " So says
Brendt Barbur, founder and director of the BFF. The BFF
brings together vintage and pop, the old and the new face of cycling, the films on the big
classic North and videos of matches in the garages of Tokyo. There are many cultural references between imaginary
USA Cycling, Italian and Japanese. Italy in particular, a country where up to 60
cycling was the first national sport, is becoming a cult object for
part of urban cyclists from around the world. Bike messenger in New York, fixed gear cyclists
of Tokyo, students idolize Berkley Historical brands and the iconography of the old Italian cycling.
And love is all about the bike Joy Ride art show that travels the world
with the Bicycle Film Festival, with works by established artists like Tom Sachs, Michel Gondry,
Phil Frost, Swoon, along with works by emerging international and Italian.
The BFF is developed in collaboration with Carhartt, Stussy, Slam Jam, Vans, trademarks of worship
urban streetwear, and of Abici Selle San Marco. The final party is organized with
Barmanlover. In Mexico the public will be welcomed by the workshop of the mobile station
Bicycles.
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