I My Bike
- Ken Paul Rosenthal |
- 2002 |
- 5 minutes |
- COLOR |
- OPT
Rental Format(s): 16mm film
A cinepoem that traces the conflict between urban space and the body from a child's compulsion to stare into the sun to an adult's obsession with dying and moving towards the light. Guided into a trance state by an unseen therapist, a disembodied voice reveals his loss of innocence upon moving to the city, his increasingly fragmented state of being and longing for death. The past and present collide within a round portal containing fleeting images of 1905-era Market Street, San Francisco over a dense sea of modern day bicyclists.
Awards: Honerable Mention, Zebra Poetry Film Festival, Berlin, Germany; Film Arts Foundation Award, Humboldt International Film Festival, Humboldt, CA.
Exhibition: Museu do Chiado Museum of Contemporary Cinema, Lisbon Portugal; The Art Museum of the University of Houston, TX; Anthology Film Archives, NYC; Poetry International Festival, Rotterdam; Ann Arbor Film Festival, MI; Athens International Film and Video Festival, Athens, OH; ICON Digital Salon, NYC; Experiments in Cinema Film Festival, Albuquerque, NM: Artists Television Access, San Francisco, CA; Director's Lounge, Berlin, Germany; AudioVision Festival, Static Gallery, Liverpool, UK; Festival Internacional del Neuvo Cine Latinoamericano, Havana, Cuba; Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, CA; Sarah Lawrence Experimental Film & Video Festival, Bronxville, NY; San Francisco Cinematheque; Film Arts Festival of Independent Cinema; Bicycle Film Festival, NYC; Cine Poem Festival, San Francisco, CA; SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA; Visible Verse, Vancouver, Canada; Other Cinema, San Francisco, CA; Chicago 8 Fest, IL; Singapore Internatinal Film Festival; Video Ex Festival, Zurich, Switzerland; Splice This Super 8 Film Festival, Toronto, Canada.