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BFF LOS ANGELES AUGUST 26 - 30
FRIDAY AUGUST 28

PROGRAM 1
7:30pm Buy Tickets

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.

PROGRAM 2
9:30pm Buy Tickets

PARASOL
USA 2008 | Digital Still Photos 9min.
Dir. Webster Crowell
An animated story of speed, bikes and dancing drawn across the surface of a few thousand paper parasols.

THOUGHTS ON MY BIKE
Canada 2009 | HDV 5min.
Dir. Andrea Dorfman
Watercolor paintings are animated to display some thoughts had whilst on a bike.

PARIS VISION
France 2009 | HD Video 5min.
Dir. Renaud Skyronka
Bike polo, tricks and fixed gears in the "city of lights", Paris.

RED HOOK CRITERIUM
USA 2009 | HD 9min.
Dir. Kalim Armstrong
On a rainy night an unsanctioned bicycle race took place through the desolate streets of Red Hook, Brooklyn. This 16-lap track bike only race brought together Cat-2 racers, bike messengers, and urban cyclists. Police arrived in full force yet an agreement was met to allow the race to continue. Host John Hoppin takes you through this exciting underground sporting event where racers speed past buses, navigate slick cobblestones and hairpin turns to compete for a podium position.

WHERE DO YOU START WHERE DO YOU STOP
USA 2009 | HD 7min.
Dir. Patrick Trefz
A story of A to B to A to B by accomplished photographer Patrick Trefz.

A BICYCLE TRIP
Italy 2008 | Betacam 4min.
Dir. Lorenzo Veracini, Nandini Namblar, Marco Avoletta
Basel, 19 April 1943. Dr. Albert Hofmann, a chemist, is cycling home after a days work in the laboratory. This episode has passed into legend, associated with the discovery of the effect on the human psyche of LSD. The film tells the story of this famous "trip", imagining an unconventional psychedelic of the '40s.

FRIENDS WE LOVE FEATURING ELLIS GALLAGHER
USA 2009 | DV 5min.
Dir. Michael Vargas & Moni Pineda
Brooklyn street artist Ellis G. takes us on a personal ride through his creative process and the defining moment that led him to his signature style of shadow-based outlines.

PREGO-CYCLE : THE BIRTH OF KADEN MAXIMO BOBE
USA 2009 | HD 3min.
Dir. Daniel Leeb Fertilized by Alfred Bobe Jr.
This film documents the Origin and birth of one of the planets greatest future cyclists. The Son of the great Alfred Bobe Jr is seen experiencing a utopian bicycle bliss from the womb of the beautiful maiden mother Laura Aguero-Dupla as she rides her unborn child to term.

DOWN BY THE WEEP HOLE: THE STORY OF THE STUPOR BOWL
USA 2009 | DV 22min.
Dir. Nathaniel Freeman
Minneapolis' long-standing alternate event to the Super Bowl! Don't miss one of the biggest (and coldest) alley cats in the world.

LE DERNIER VOYAGE OF MARYSE DE LUCAS
FRANCE 2008 | 22min.
Dir. Artus De Lavilleon, David Ledoux
David and Artus ride to the town where Artus' mother is from to scatter her ashes.