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CYCLING SHORTS
Date // Saturday 7th of May
Venue // The Windmill Auditorium, Blennerville // 7 pm
Event Details // Come and watch a bundle of little shorts featuring, or inspired by, bicycles.We’ll be snuggling up in the windmill for this viewing session. Limited places so come early.
Bicycle convoy departing Tralee Town Square, meeting from 6 for 6.30 departure.
Programme:
Director: Danny MacAskill
Duration: 00:05:40
Synopsis:
An updated version of Danny Mac Askill’s Inspired
first seen at cycling shorts three years ago. His
ridiculous virtuosity on a bike is still as mind-blowing
as ever.
With Nigel Sylvester)
Director: 13th Witness
Duration: 00:02:55
Synopsis:
More virtuoso stuff, except this time, across the
Atlantic and with some attitude laid on thick.
Director: Aaron Koblin & Daniel Massey
Duration: 00:02:17
Synopsis: Technically there’s no actual bicycle in
this peice but that shouldn’t stop us. A fascinating
look at what happens with computer scientists have
too much time in the lab of Amazon’s Mechanical
Turk web services.
Director: Casa Peseta
Duration: 00:07:40
Synopsis: A documentary about a very special
series of bicycle caps made by Spanish brand
peSeta for the New Museum of New York City.
caps only available at the New Museum shop.
Springtime 2011, Madrid.
Director: North of Ten
Duration: 00:03:38
Synopsis: Erik Elstran’s novel interpretation of slay-
ing a dragon on two wheels.
Title: Bicycle Repairman
Director: Monty Python
Duration: 00:03:09
Synopsis: Classic Flying Circus sketch featuring
Michael Palin as a bicycle repairman .
Director: Michael Evans
Duration: 00:06:02
Synopsis: Filmmaker Michael John Evans sets out
to visually portray “the zone” which one enters when
their craft is honed.
Sean Walling, owner of Soulcraft, builds top notch
custom steel bicycle frames. This short film documents
Sean’s fabrication methods: a well choreographed
dance of experience and muscle memory producing
a seemingly effortless ode to process.
Director: Changoman
Duration: 00:04:36
Synopsis: A look at the strict rules and regulation-
run VCA 2010 Race Run.
Director: World Bicycle Relief
Duration: 00:07:27
Synopsis: See the dramatic difference a simple
bicycle has made for four World Bicycle Relief recipi-
ents in Zambia. A volunteer healthcare worker, dairy
farmer, local mechanic and young student share
their stories, echoing those of over 71,000 recipients
we have served since our founding in 2005.
Director: Jeff Tremaine
Duration: 00.54.00
Synopsis: In 1985, at the tender age of 13, Mat
Hoffman entered into the BMX circuit as an amateur,
and by 16 he had risen to the professional level.
Throughout his storied career, Hoffman has ignored
conventional limitations, instead, focusing his efforts
on the purity of the sport and the pursuit of “what’s
next.” Academy Award nominee Spike Jonze and
extreme sport fanatic Johnny Knoxville, along with
director Jeff Tremaine, will showcase the inner
workings and exploits of the man who gave birth to
“Big Air.”
Director:Some Genius
Duration: 00.02.57
Synopsis: Muppets. music and bicycles. Unbelievable.