Kalamazoo Bicycle Film Festival

Contact the Kalamazoo Bicycle Film Festival at KBFF@live.com

The festival is a celebration of bicycles and the culture that surrounds them. The films feature a wide spectrum of experiences, stories and images of bicycling. Some will make you laugh. Some will make you think. The common theme is that they are all for, about or inspired by bicycles.

To celebrate Bike Week we are partnering with the Kalamazoo Valley Museum to show selections from the 2010, 2011 & 2012 Bike Shorts program. The program is 1 hour long.

2012 Bike Week Shorts - film line up

10 Things I Have Learned About Mountainbiking
Director: Tom Malecha
Time 3:35 / Switzerland

Insights and inspiration gained through mountain biking.

Performance
Director: Robin Moore
Time 2:50 / USA

A man sings about his passion for biking.

Blackstone Bicycle Works
Director: Matt Ogens
Time 3:34 / USA

Blackstone becomes the first to receive Seattle’s Best Coffee Brew-lanthropy award. This community bike shop teaches Chicago youth how to refurbish bicycles.

36 Bicycles
Director: Ian Frase
Time 6:14 / USA

One man's story of his 36 stolen bicycles.

Bike Race
Director: Tom Schroeder
Time 12:38 / USA

An animated documentary telling the story of a bicycle race that turns into a love triangle.

Erik Elstran Welcome to the Team
Director: Erik Elstran
Time 3:40 / USA

Erik Elstran shows off his unique bag of BMX skills.

Spokes
Director: Carl Kloster
Time 3:08 / USA

A rat riding a bicycle gets info a confrontation with a turtle.

No Handed Bike Moves
Director: Ninian Doff
Time 3:05 / USA

A professional display of 50 No Handed Bike Moves performed to “Golden Tree” by Martin Brooks.

The Bicycle Grief
Director: Staci Gibson
Time 3:00 / USA

A hedgehog and a raccoon learn to share and overcome challenges.

Unstoppables
Director: Daniel Jariod
Time 3:08 / Spain

Profiles of athletes preparing for the 2012 Paralympic Games in London.

LIFECYCLE: 365 days in the life of a bike in NYC
Director: Stewart Devlin & Suzanne Macaulay
Time 0:50 / USA

A fully loaded bicycle is chained to a post in New York and photographed for 365 days.

A Bicycle Trip
Director: Lorenzo Veracini
Time 4:06 / Italy

A psychedelic bicycle journey of discovery.

The Man Who Lived On His Bike
Director: Guillaume Blanchet
Time 3:02 / Canada

A man rides through Montreal doing everything on his bicycle 24/7.

Burning Bikes
Director: Martin Rockwell
Time 7:20 / USA

This piece highlights the bicycle as a key part of the culture of Burning Man, an annual art event and temporary community in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada.