Bicycle Film Festival Ashland
Friday, May 16th & Saturday, May 17th
Bicycle Film Festival is coming to Ashland on May 16-17 at Varsity Theatre in Ashland.
All proceeds from ticket sales go directly to our local non-profit youth mountain biking organization, Ashland Devo.
BFF Ashland is hosted by Ashland Devo. FREE Bike Parking will be provided by Piccadilly Cycles.
Join us for 2 film screenings that celebrate the bicycle. Take a journey around the globe! The films appeal to a wide audience from film connoisseurs to avid cyclists and everyone in between. It’s Bicycle Film Festival’s 25th Anniversary celebrating bicycles through art, film, and music. BFF has spanned the world to an audience of one million people in over 100 cities worldwide - and now, Ashland, Oregon. Let's celebrate!
BFF Ashland presents two film programs:
Program 1 - CINEMATIC SHORT FILMS
Program 2 - MOTHERLOAD FEATURE FILM
Get a Full Festival Pass to attend both programs.
About Bicycle Film Festival: Founded in New York in 2001, BFF has an incredible history of working with the most important artists, filmmakers, venues, and institutions around the world. The international locales included Paris, London, Tokyo, Shanghai, Mexico City, Cape Town and Istanbul and more at some of the most important venues such as Sydney Opera House and the Barbican or an old factory in Zurich. The subcultures of cycling have shared equal billing with the most exciting innovators in music, art, design and film. Past participants have included: Erykah Badu, Karl Lagerfeld, Francesco Clemente, Shepard Fairey, Albert Maysles, Michel Gondry, Spike Jonze, Alex Katz, Kaws, Mike Mills, Paul Smith, the Neistat Brothers, Tom Sachs, Ridley Scott, Kiki Smith, Swoon, and Ai Weiwei.
Program 1 - CINEMATIC SHORT FILMS (100 min.)
Fri, May 16 at 6pm
FRIDAY, MAY 16
6:00PM. FREE Bike Parking providedby Piccadilly cycles. All proceeds from ticket sales go directly to our local non-profit youth mountain biking organization, Ashland Devo.
Program 1: CINEMATIC SHORTS (100 min.)
Documentaries, narratives, fun animations, award-winning directors, and emerging talents – all share equal billing. BFF Ashland’s curated short film program features stories about:
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One of the greatest downhill racers of all time, Greg Minnaar’s bad crash was frightening - but more frightening: the idea of being airlifted to the hospital by helicopter
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A bicycle takeover and one of the United State's largest, most anticipated street riding events on the bikelife calendar attracting riders from the wheeling community worldwide.
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Kailey Kornhauser and fellow “fat cyclist” Marley Blonsky are on a mission to change the idea that people with larger bodies can't ride bikes
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A charismatic Ghanaian immigrant in Amsterdam who teaches refugee adult women to ride bikes
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Cycle sport as relief from genocide
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A family gives up everything to be together in their motorhome, traveling from bike park to bike park across Europe.
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A rural migrant worker in China uses the bicycle to buy and collect styrofoam boxes. (score by Nick Zinner of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs)
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The story of 17-year-old Nigel James, a Diné mountain biker who hosts the first ever Enduro race in the Navajo Nation, and honors their land, community, and culture through revitalizing trails.
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and more!
Program 2 - MOTHERLOAD FEATURE FILM
Sat, May 17 at 4pm
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.
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