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Bicycle Film Festival: Brother and Klunkerz

One showing of a two-film program.

By Aaron Donovan

10:31 PM EDT on May 15, 2007

One showing of a two-film program.

BROTHER
Canada 2006 | HDV | 13 min.
Dir. Syd Woodward
A story of two brothers brought together by their love for mountainbiking.
KLUNKERZ
East Coast Premiere
USA 2006 | DV, 8mm, 16mm, DigiBeta | 88 min.
Dir. Billy Savage
The history of the modern mountain bike. This film documents the rise of a huge cultural movement that was pioneered in Marin County on the trails of Mt. Tamaipais. Mountain Biking was born out of the creative scene surrounding the San Francisco Bay Area hippy and rock world of the sixties and seventies. This film features the characters of this day such as Gary Fisher, Joe Breeze, Charlie Kelly and Alan Bonds. The races began amongst friends getting stoned and partying and flying down the mountain on their pre forties bikes with fat tires: â€œKlunkerz.â€ These fun escapades turned into a sport that changed and maybe even saved the bike industry. Now all over the world you see people riding mountain bikes.

Aaron Donovan

Before he began blogging about land use and transportation, Aaron Donovan wrote The New York Times Neediest Cases Fund's annual fundraising appeal for three years and earned a master's degree in urban planning from Columbia. Since then, he has worked for nonprofit organizations devoted to New York City economic development. He lives and works in the Financial District, and sees New York's pre-automobile built form as an asset that makes New York unique in the United States, and as a strategic advantage that should be capitalized upon.

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