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Bicycle Film Festival: Ski Boys, Bike Kill 4 and Monkey Warfare

Three showings of a three-film program.

By Aaron Donovan

9:46 PM EDT on May 15, 2007

Three showings of a three-film program.

SKI BOYS
Canada 2006 | Super 8 | 8 min.
Dir. Benny Zenga
The last reels of the Ski Boys, which document their inventive exploits in rural Ontario during the early 70’s.
BIKE KILL 4
USA 2006 | Super 8 | 2 min.
Dir. Nick Golebiewski
The Black Label Bicycle Club throws an amazing block party .
MONKEY WARFARE
New York Premiere
Canada 2006 | DV | 77 min.
Dir. Reginald Harkema Many critics have selected this film as one of the best films without distribution of the year.
This film is perfect for our opening as suggested by Indiewireâ€™s Tom Hall â€œI can’t recommend Monkey Warfare enough and, if this movie is not the Opening Night Film of NYC’s Bicycle Film Festival, there is something wrong in the world.â€

Dan and Linda are two ex-activists in Toronto who live a low-key lifestyle of selling junk online and riding their bicycles. After their pot dealer gets busted, they meet the young revolutionary Susan, forcing Dan and Linda to question their relationship and face their turbulent past. “Monkey Warfare” was well received at the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival winning the Special Jury Award.

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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