This is a two-day celebration of filmmakers' responses to land rights and climate change movements in a series of bicycle-powered screenings.
Cyclists use pedal power to generate electricity for pop-up cinemas at Austler Market in Bradford.
The intimate “100% Human Driven” film experience will take place on March 28th and 29th.
The cinema with bicycles is operated by a “bicycle generator” – the bike remains stationary, with the rear wheels rising from the ground and connected to a motor known as the dynamo. Cyclists generate the power to run the equipment.
The event will be held by Bent Architect, who served the event in an unusual space in Bradford, including a tale fountain that took place at the Fountain Café at Austler Market, with award-winning full English and the space will be performed at Ivegate's abandoned pub.
Organizers are working with cycling at Bradford Capital, cycling, recruiting cyclists to promote the event. There is also free popcorn for cyclists to take part.
The programme, featuring films by inventive British and international artists, rarely see these films in Bradford.
Jude Wright said:
“Movie visitors are invited to help drive events by jumping on the generator bike.”
The film includes Derek German's Journey to Aveberry. Abeberry is an experimental Super 8 film that charts the walking journey the director made through the landscapes of Wiltshire and towards Neolithic stones. Jumanaman foraging drama about foraging in Palestine/Israel wild edible plants at a humorous and contemplative pace. And Philip Treberian's The Moon and The Sledgehammer are rave reviews of authentic families who have lived for generations in isolated off-grid homes deep in the Sussex forests.
Jude adds: We ask people to book tickets, but we want the event to “pay as you feel” so everyone can come along. ”
The program is curated by renowned Sheffield-based artist, filmmaker and writer Ian Nesbitt, and the two-day event is funded by the Bradford Council's Spring Grant Program and the West Yorkshire Combination Authority.
The complete program is as follows:
*Moon and Sledgehammer: Philip Treberian's Cult Classic Classics have lived for generations in isolated off-grid homesteads deep in the Sussex forests.
* Foragers: A drama about foraging wild edible plants in Palestine/Israel. It depicts the impact of Israeli conservation law on these practices.
*And still, it remains. A new film by Alwa Abrawa and Terab Shah explores the heritage of colonialism's racial and environmental. This is the continuing influence of French colonialism in Maltotek, a village surrounded by the Hoggar Mountains of the Sahara in southern Algeria and home to the Black Algerian Escamaran community. The area, which has been used as a test site for nuclear bombs by the French between 1961 and 1966, continues to suffer from the consequences of radioactive fallout circulating in the water and soil.
*Shorts (Friday and Saturday):
Derek German's Journey to Abeberry: A Short Experimental Super 8 Film Made by German in 1971 creates the walking journey he made through the Wiltshire landscapes towards Abeberry's neolithic stones.
*Anything that moves: Esther May Campbell went to the forest and told stories of human, spiritual and animal species.
The children tied the camera lockdown into trees and rocks, “waiting like foxes.” A year later, Esther collided with his findings into three audiovisual pieces, crushing the boundaries of the world.
*Something we leaned: Mars Saude's short film explores the future of food production in climate change through documents from two sites on Mid Wales: an automated research greenhouse and a small organic market garden. These settings lead to miniature excursions into a speculative future rooted in Welsh soil.
*Catalog: The work of socially involved artist, filmmaker, writer and pedestrian Ian Nesbitt “exploring the meaning of using modes of cooperation, persistence and relatives to preserve space for practicing unity and to live well with the unfolding results of the collapsed system.”
*This is the land located in the old Scene Shop unit in Oastler Market on Friday, March 28th and Saturday, March 29th from 6pm to 7:45pm.
For more information, visit pedalpoweredpictures.eventbrite.com to book tickets by visiting bentarchitect.co.uk.
