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Cycle Shorts
Not the questionable fashion trend of the early 90s, but a night of short films about and featuring or inspired by bicycles.
Limited places so come early
Entry €3 or FREE if you cycle, !
Valet parking with a bike doctor on hand , so your bike will be pumped and oiled for your journey home.
Venue: Blennerville Windmill Auditorium
Date: Saturday 15th May
Time: 7 pm
Programme:
Director: Niamh Kennedy
Duration: 00:03:10
Synopsis:
Ever tried to race through rush hour traffic? Alleycat
is a short documentary capturing an underground
alleycat race through the streets of Dublin.
Director: Niamh Kennedy
Duration: 00:11:37
Synopsis:
It takes a strong nerve to cycle in Dublin navigating
chaotic junctions, reckless drivers and opened car
doors. But there’s one group that have this down
to an art, with the streets as their office and their
playground. This film takes us into the world of the
Dublin bicycle couriers.
Niamh Kennedy is passionate about all kinds of
documentary. She has been working in the film
and TV industry for the past four years, first for film
company Element Pictures, and then for tv company
Independent Pictures. She has directed a number
of short documentaries including the award winning
“An Ember’s Glow”, and the two bicycle films detailed
above.
Director: Barry McGoff
Duration: 00:04:06
Synopsis: This short piece features a Christmas
Day Critical Mass in Tangiers in 2007.
Barry McGoff is also the man behind the high bikes
featured throughout the festival and has several pieces
on display in the Frame X exhibition in Siamsa.
Director: Lacey Falvey
Duration: 00:01:30
Synopsis: Three 30 second promos for Hungary’s
Bike To Work scheme.
Director: Larry McGowan
Duration: 00:03:41
Synopsis:
The story of a man who is suprised by his rekindled
love of cycling. Larry McGowan is a singer-song-
writer from Galway.
Director: Etain McGuckian
Duration: 00:15:14
Synopsis:
This mockumentary follows a group of wacky charac-
ters as they descend on Kerry for the prestigious Fenit
Bike Championships. Who will win is anyone’s guess!
The film was shot in a day in the space of five hours.
There was no script – all the characters were given
their character synopsis and ad libbed from there.
A real race was conducted for authenticity. Most of
the characters double-jobbed and formed part of the
production crew.
Director: Peter Farrell
Duration: 00:05:12
Synopsis:
Two people, one bike, no bus.
Director: Lorna Gargan
Duration: 00:10:23
Synopsis: A simple documentary about a family-
run business that rents out bikes in the Phoenix
Park.
Director: DCTV
Duration: 00:2:01
Synopsis: Clip from cycling documentary produced
by Dublin Community Television.
Director: Sean Proctor
Duration: 00:01:53
Synopsis: Gabriel Reimer is a 19-year-old living in
Mount Pleasant. However, unlike most his age, who
go to school full time, he works full time at Motorless
Motion, the bike shop in Downtown Mount Pleasant.
Director: Jeremy Schliewe and Ben Manker-Seale
Duration: 00:04:37
Synopsis: There’s something not quite right about
Shemp’s new fixed gear bicycle.
Director: Adam Rosenberg
Duration: 00:01.04
Synopsis: You can’t forget how to ride a bike, nor
the feeling that comes with it.
Director: Eric Dyer
Duration: 00:06:35
Synopsis:
A bicyclist travels through a fantastical, collaged
reconstruction of Denmark’s capital city. I combined
the concept of the pre-cinema zoetrope with fast-
shutter digital video technology to explore the kinetics
of Copenhagen.
About 25 paper cinetropes were created for the film.
Director: Michael Kelly
Duration: 00:05:10
Synopsis:
Delaneys is a short documentary that pays homage
to a much-loved bicycle shop in Dublin. It explores
the man and the family behind the enterprise.
Director: Eric Dyer
Duration: 00:02:58
Synopsis:
An experimental video. “With the computer we are
pushing past man’s empowerment by technology
into his elimination by it. In the creation of ‘Chopin’s
Bicycle,’ the production staff (the editor and the
compositor) were replaced by the music staff: a mu-
sic composition provided both the temporal structure
(timing of cuts) and spatial structure (layered mise-
en-scene). A computer-driven automated process
made this possible.”
“Furthermore, this music composition was written over
150 years ago. Our trend toward retro-referencing
indicates a quiet realization that humankind has
reached its peak– we now only want to look back.”