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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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Ken Paul Rosenthal (their other films)
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| Producer: Ken Paul Rosenthal |
Genre: Experimental |
| Country: USA |
Copyright Year: 2001 |
| Original Format: 16mm |
Color Type: Color |
| Sound Type: other |
Length: 00:05:30 |
| Original Language: English |
Subtitle Language: None |
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Label:
Blackchair Collection
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FESTIVAL SCREENINGS
35th Humboldt International Film Festival, Humboldt, CA – Film Arts Award
Zebra Poetry Film Festival, Berlin, Germany – Honorable Mention
40th Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor, Michigan
34th Poetry International Festival, Rotterdam
29th Athens International Film and Video Festival, Athens, Ohio
3rd Sarah Lawrence Experimental Film & Video Festival, Bronxville, NY
Video Ex ’02 Experimental Film & Video Festival, Zurich, Switzerland
27th Cine Poem Festival, San Francisco, California
5th Splice This! Super 8 Film Festival, Toronto, Canada
19th Film Arts Film Festival of Independent Cinema, San Francisco, California
3rd Bicycle Film Festival, New York City
Bearded Child Film Festival, Grand Rapids, Minnesota
GROUP SHOWS
National Museum of Contemporary Art, Lisbon, Portugal – 'Intermittent'
SF Camerawork, SF – 'Self/Projected: Moving Image As Self Portrait'
Anthology Film Archives, New York City – Fresh Film Program
Artists Television Access, San Francisco – 'Penumbra'
San Francisco Cinematheque – 'New Terrain; Recent Additions to Canyon'
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Music:
Ken Paul Rosenthal |
| Film Website: http://www.kenpaulrosenthal.com/imybike.htm |
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