Bike-In Film Festival
Come join fellow film and/or bicycling enthusiasts at this fantastic and
rare showing:
Where: UW-Madison's Play Circle Theater
When: September 23-24, 2003
Admission: Get your free tickets at the Great Choices Week Booth (Limit of 2
per person), see www.fpm.wisc.edu/tdm for location information. Remaining
tickets will be made available show nights on a first-come-first-served
basis.
Films:
* The Hard Road (see www.thehardroad.com for more info)
* Riding the Black Mamba - Bicycle use for transportation and income
generation in Africa"
* Hardihood (see www.hardihood.com for more info)
* Song of the Bicycle (see www.frif.com/cat97/p-s/s_song.html for more
info)
The Hard Road and Song of the Bicycle at 7:30 pm each night
The Hard Road - Join us and Director Jamie Paolinetti for the showing of
this Feature-Length Documentary film which follows the upstart NetZero team
through an entire season as they experience the highs and lows that are
inseparable from the sport of professional cycling. It takes the viewer into
the belly of the beast as seasoned racers Graeme Miller and Jamie Paolinetti
mentor a team of neo-pros who dream of breaking into the ultra-elite ranks
of the pro peloton. The Hard Road reveals the true grit, determination and
sacrifice of these remarkable athletes as they strive to pursue their
passion at any cost. Share the riders' struggles both on and off the bike as
they face financial hardship, family pressures and the uncertainty of the
future in what is surely the most volatile of all professional sports.
Song of the Bicycle - The evening will start with this 17 minute film, which
features scenes of bicycles being used to transport huge earthenware urns
and bamboo cabinets to market and to simply get from place to place. All
this is interspersed with the observations of artist Yi Ling who spent 4 1/2
years cycling around China's perimeter. Beautifully photographed, Song of
the Bicycle is an oddly insightful look at the divide in Chinese and Western
lifestyles as manifested in the simple use of the bicycle.
Hardihood and Riding the Black Mamba at 4:30 pm each night
Hardihood - In this documentary over ten women are chosen to make a
commentary on female athletic performance. Over a period of 2 seasons,
Hardihood examines female downhill mountain bike racers. Beginning with
Monday and ending on Sunday; animation's, weather reports, and the racer's
daily process, honor the seven successive days. Jen Klish provides a
contrast to the sponsored corporate riders. Her 50 hour workweek, and
increasing ambivalence with competition, leave Klish retired from racing to
pursue her profession as a bike mechanic. One year later, Klish is the sole
female mechanic on the race circuit wrenching. Jacquie Phelan, a 3-time
national champion, provides the history of
the sport. Director Nicole Hahn uses these stories to tell a greater untold
story - that of the female athletic spirit.
Riding the Black Mamba - Find out more about bicycle use in Africa for
transportation and income generation in this short documentary by Johanna
Kleinert. Johanna spent 5 months in East and Southern Africa researching
such issues as the booming bicycle-taxi industry in Western Kenya and
interviewing bike dealers, cyclists and others.
The first 50 students to attend each night will receive a free bike
headlight, courtesy of Bucky's Ambassadors.
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