The Bicycle Film Festival will be winding down its Austin stop today but there is still plenty to see if you’ve missed out so far. Watching the Bike Polo Tournament at Metz Park is free and film sessions are at 501 Studios. Tickets are $10/session. Sunday’s sessions are repeats of sessions earlier this weekend.
Bicycle Film Festival Bike Polo Tournament Day 2: Double Elimination FINALS!
Metz Park, 2407 Canterbury St
Day two of Austin’s first Bike Polo Tournament. Teams will be seeded based on the Round Robin Results. Game play will begin at High Noon with a Double Elimination Tournament. Food and Drinks will be provided.
Bicycle Film Festival, Program 7: Repeat of Urban Bike Shorts
7 PM, 501 Studio Corner, E Fifth St. and Brushy St, (501 N IH 35)
EMPIRE USA
2009 | 24p HD DVCPRO 5min. Dir. Luke Stiles & Christian Thormann
No one can dispute that this Track thing started in New York and these are the current writers of history on the streets.
ONE LESS HORSE
France 2009 | Video 3min. Dir. Yorgo Tloupas, Benjamin. Seroussi & Patrice Meignan
Three horse polo players go head to head with three bike polo players.
SAFARI LONDON UK
2009 | HD 4min. Dir. Rick Symonds & Roddy Macintyre
Spend a whole evening with a cyclist in London condensed to a few moments with time-lapse.
THE MESSENGER’S CREED
USA 2009 | HD 720p 2min. Dir. Dan Gingold
Not unlike the Hippocratic oath of doctors, a code to live by.
MADE IN QUEENS USA
2008 | Video 10min.
Dir. Joe Stevens & Nicolas Randall In Queens, a group of teens from Trinidad attached speakers to their bikes. The music was never quite loud enough and they had to go bigger and bigger with the sound systems.
KANT
Japan 2009 | DVD 4min. Dir. Kazuto Nakamura & Ikuma Ootsubo
Yokohama fixed gear riders having fun with friends.
POLO MANUAL
UK 2009 | DVCPRO HD 10min. Dir. Brendan McNamee
Like an instruction manual on bike polo, but with the pages out of order.
PIXEL GEAR BIKES!! RIDE SAFE, RIDE FAST, RIDE FREE
Spain 2009 | Video 1min. Dir. Simon Bericua Lopez
Pixel Gear Bikes!!! Is an animation based on the Paperboy 2 videogame from the 1980s.
THE BICYCLE COWBOY USA
2009 | HD 10min. Dir. Ben Lynch
Out in the old west, the Bicycle Cowboy finds true love, but faces many obstacles.
THE SCRAPER BIKE KING USA
2009 | 16mm 13min.Dir. Rafael Flores
The inspirational story of “Bay-be Champ”, the original creator of the scraper bike movement in Oakland, CA.
ULTRA COOL TEXAS EMO HIPSTERS RIDE FIXED USA/TEXAS
2009 | HD 10min. Dir. Donny Hall
A Raven Feeder Production presents riders from all around Texas having fun on bikes.
BROADWAY BOMBER/BRIDGE BATTLE USA
2009 | HD 11min. Dir. Lucas Brunelle
Lucas never ceases to amaze viewers with the first person perspective video from his helmet-cams. Close calls and dangerous streets shows urban cycling at its finest.
ANIMA D’ACCIAIO (SOUL OF STEEL)
USA/Italy 2009 | HD 11min. Dir. Daniel Leeb
A Portrait of the legendary Italian Frame Builder Giovanni Pelizzoli aka “Ciocc” . Ciocc shares his wisdom and life story while hand building a revolutionary new frame for urban fixed gear cycling. Ciocc demonstrates that the tradition and craft of frame building’s Golden age can be re-born and push the technical frontier of Cycling’s future. Also feaures Ed “Wonka” La Forte and Antonio Colombo with an original soundtrack by Blonde Redhead.
Bicycle Film Festival, Program 8: Repeat of Where are you go
9 PM, 501 Studio Corner, E Fifth St. and Brushy St, (501 N IH 35)
MADE IN QUEENS
USA 2008 | Video 10min.
Dir. Joe Stevens & Nicolas Randall
Last summer in Queens, NY a group of imaginative tinkerers from Trinidad created something no one had ever seen before: enormous stereo systems jury rigged onto ordinary bmx bikes. Traveling together they treat the neighborhood to an outrageous impromptu music and dance party on wheels.
WHERE ARE YOU GO
Canada 2009 | 60min.
Dir. Benny Zenga & Brian Vernor
Four months on a bicycle between Cairo, Egypt and Cape Town, South Africa en route with the Tour d’ Afrique, the world’s longest bicycle race and expedition. BFF Alumni the Zenga Bros. and Brian Vernor share a universal love of the bicycle with Africa’s roadside mechanics, sporting racers and curious strangers. Traveling more than 70 miles per day, 50 racers and expedition riders experienced the boundless Nubian desert of Sudan, the great majesty of Victoria Falls, and finally the cold rush of the Atlantic Ocean. The 7,000 mile expedition is a constant adventure full of playfulness and mysterious beauty, and is testament to the endurance of human curiosity.









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