I My Bike
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I My Bike is a cinepoem that traces the conflict between urban space and the body from a child’s compulsion to stare into the sun to an adult’s obsession with dying and moving towards the light. Guided into a trance state by an unseen therapist, a disembodied voice reveals his loss of innocence upon moving to the city, his increasingly fragmented state of being and longing for death. The past and present collide within a round portal containing fleeting images of vintage Market Street, San Francisco over a dense sea of modern day bicyclists. REVIEW by filmmaker, Matt Bowler A boyhood gift of a bicycle transcends from the sunny and smiling overexposed youth of innocence to the hustle and bustle and flight of the city fight. Traveling through the concrete on petal-ed wings, through the man-made dynasty of high rises, constant and furious the pace that innocence and simplicity is rendered as a single circle in center frame, looming as the eye of the turning wheels, contrasting the frenzied commotion. I feel I am going to get smothered and collapse from a bus, a building, or a passing pedestrian, for the camera and I are the vehicle, the messenger sent through the streets and the viewing audience with questions; our deaths are inevitable but what is left for the industrialized future? Will I be re-incarnated as a rose petal or recycled as a bike pedal? Possibly, re-invented as a blade of grass that emerges through the cement? We are not simply what we can create, but also what we can destroy and how we choose to be in the natural world; existentialism through a vivid re-photographer binocular.
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