Entries from Torontoist tagged with 'bicyclefilmfestival'
June 17, 2008
If you're not getting tickets from the "Safe Cycling" cops this week, spend that extra cash and get them for this week/end's Bicycle Film Festival. Now in its eighth year, the round-the-world celebration of two-wheeled transport careens into Toronto this Wednesday night, June 18, through Saturday, June 21. First up, pedal over to Ourspace/Studio Gallery, 294 College Street, for Bikes Rock, a jams-packed opening bash with local indie-bop headliners—any guesses? Uh-huh—The Bicyles. Also on......
Continue Reading "BFF, uh, Forever"August 24, 2007
We’ve mentioned the Bicycle Film Festival a few times before, but we’re going to give special mention to it again today because tonight at 7 p.m. is the screening of the festival’s first shorts programme, featuring Warriors: The Bike Race. The Warriors is basically one of the most excellent films ever, and in August of 2002, 89 gangs of bicycle riders took an all-night race from the Bronx to Coney Island in a sort......
Continue Reading "Film Friday: Warriors! Ride Out To Play!"June 29, 2007
An art bike! A very, very tall art bike! Want to see it in action? Benny Zenga of The Winking Circle is making a film for The New Kings’ bicycle anthem "Street Fighter," and he’s shooting at tonight's Critical Mass. He needs people riding bicycles, tricycles, unicycles, you name it, as extras. The Winking Circle began in Uxbridge with the mission of “the eccentrification of the world.” To make it happen, this group of self-proclaimed......
Continue Reading "Be on Camera with This Supercool Bicycle"