Bicycle Film Festival in San Francisco

July 12, 7:43 PMSF Bicycle Transportation ExaminerBen Marks

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The Bicycle Film Festival rides into San Francisco this week, presenting music, art, and lots of films, most of them shorts, that celebrate cycling.

The festival gets started on Tuesday and Wednesday nights at The Independent with a pair of shows by Blonde Redhead. Tickets are $25, doors at 7:30. On Thursday, the scene shifts to the Ever Gold and Market Street galleries for the Joyride Art Show. Free.

Bike Movies are screened on Friday and Saturday at the Victoria Theatre. The first film of the festival is Made in Queens, a short documentary about some very creative folks in Queens who have tricked out their BMX bikes with impossibly bulky stereo systems. Another New York based short on Friday is Red Hook Criterium, which is about an unsanctioned, 16-lap race through the streets of Brooklyn. Friday films also include a 10-minute video on how to play bike polo and a 6-minute film called Wolfpack Hustle, which tells the story of a race across L.A.

Saturday begins with a street party at Capp and 16th—there will be a BMX course for kids and plenty of competitions. Cinematic highlights of the day include a documentary about the pedicab industry called The Third Wheel, a rarely seen Japanese track film from 1956, a 10-minute love letter to the SF Bicycle Coalition, a documentary about the BMX company Fat Bald Men, and a film about Giovanni Pelizzoli, the legendary frame builder from Italy (with a soundtrack by Blonde Redhead).