I My Bike

2002, 16mm, color, sound, 5 minutes

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 1905-era Market Street, San Francisco over a dense sea of modern day bicyclists. Originally presented as a 2-projector, live performance piece.

From Naked Bike Rides to Spectacles of Motion: Cycling and the rider-bicycle in experimental documentary film
I My Bike critical review for Studies in Documentary Film by Dr. Kornelia Boczkowska

Awards

  • Honorable Mention
    Zebra Poetry Film Festival, Berlin, Germany
  • Film Arts Foundation Award
    Humboldt International Film Festival, Humboldt, CA

Screenings

  • Museu do Chiado, Museum of Contemporary Cinema, Lisbon, Portugal – Intermittent
  • The Art Museum of the University of Houston, TX – Collaborating With the Moving Image
  • Anthology Film Archives, New York City – Fresh Film
  • Poetry International Festival, Rotterdam
  • Ann Arbor Film Festival, MI
  • Athens International Film and Video Festival, Athens, OH
  • ICON Digital Salon, New York City – auto:IDENTITY
  • Experiments in Cinema Film Festival, Albuquerque, NM
  • Artists Television Access, San Francisco, CA – Radical Light
  • Director’s Lounge, Berlin, Germany – Urban Research on Film
  • AudioVision Festival, Static Gallery, Liverpool, England
  • Festival Internacional del Neuvo Cine Latinoamericano, Havana, Cuba
  • Anthology Film Archives, New York City – Canyon Cinema Program
  • Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco - Schematics from a Memory Grid
  • Sarah Lawrence Experimental Film & Video Festival, Bronxville, NY
  • San Francisco Cinematheque, CA - New Terrain; Recent Additions to Canyon Cinema
  • Film Arts Festival of Independent Cinema, San Francisco, CA
  • Bicycle Film Festival, New York City
  • Cine Poem Festival, San Francisco, CA
  • SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA – Self/Projected: The Moving Image As Self Portrait
  • Visible Verse, Vancouver, Canada
  • Other Cinema, San Francisco, CA – New Experimental Works
  • Chicago 8 Fest, IL
  • Singapore International Film Festival
  • Video Ex ‘02 Festival, Zurich, Switzerland
  • Artists Television Access, San Francisco, CA – Penumbra
  • Splice This! Super 8 Film Festival, Toronto, Canada