Program 2 - MOTHERLOAD FEATURE FILM

SATURDAY, MAY 17

4:00PM. FREE Bike parking provided by Piccadilly Cycles.

All proceeds from ticket sales go directly to our local non-profit youth mountain biking organization, Ashland Devo. Program 2: MOTHERLOAD (100 min.)

An award-winning documentary that uses the cargo bike as the vehicle for exploring parenthood in this digital age of climate change.

Preceded by BFF curated short films. 

MOTHERLOAD (Dir. Liz Canning, 86 min. 2019) - Filmmaker Liz Canning cycled everywhere until she had twins in 2008. Hauling babies via car was not only unsustainable but took the freedom and adventure out of life, and Liz felt trapped. She Googled “family bike” and uncovered a global movement of people replacing cars with cargo bikes: long-frame bicycles designed for carrying passengers and heavy loads. Liz set out to learn more and MOTHERLOAD was born. As Liz meets cargo bike inventors, riders and advocates all over the world, she contemplates the increasing tension between modern life and our hunter-gatherer DNA. She discovers the history, and potential future, of the bicycle as the “ultimate social revolutionizer.” When characters in the film encounter cultural resistance, Liz draws connections to the struggle of cyclist Suffragettes and women's seemingly endless fight for bodily autonomy.