Hey, what could be cooler than a bicycle powered film screening at the Big Chill. The folks at The Magnificent Revolutionary Cycling Cinema have organized a super 8 and sometimes bike festival powered by a generator run by a bunch of bicycles. So, if you are in the UK this weekend, check it out!

I have Gears for Fears, Bike Kill 4, and Bike Kill 2005 playing!

Hi ,

just to let you know that we are screening both ‘Gears For Fears’ and
‘Bike Kill 4 2006′ on Sunday. In addition we will be screening ‘Bike
Kill 2005′ on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. This is the only film that
Im showing on every day of The Big Chill.

The complete running order is here . . .
http://cyclecinema.wordpress.com/events/big-chill-running-order/

Thanks
Si

It should be a rad event.

-n

You guessed it, the Bicycle Film Festival is in Paris July 26-29th. If you happen to no be in Paris check it out! I will just be in the US working on the BFF web site.

Au revoir
-Nick

PS1 - Review of July 2007 Show

Originally uploaded by ngolebiewski

PS1 has a couple good shows, and quite more than a few mediocre ones. The outdoor installation is pretty cool. It’s PS1’s Young Architect Program which takes place every summer. This year it looks like net hammocks (quite comfy), telephone poles, and orange warning flags. The side room has slow fill water bins that dump.

The only downside is that sitting on the net hammocks, the reek of spilled alcohol oozes up as this is the site of their Saturday Warm-Up parties.

Inside, the big exhibition, Jim Shaw’s Donner Party, sucks! It is made up of crap from LA’s thrift stores strung together into a round table. Each table is actually a covered wagon which was obviously hired out to be made as the carpentry is quite nice. The paintings also blew. Kind of a naive-salvation army thing that was not pulled off so well.

One of the small exhibitions is great and unexpected. Two artists in Hamburg that work as a team of sorts have a show called slugs and snails… I went to the website to check the artists’ names and the title of the show: Dorota Jurczak and Abel Auer: The Slimy Trail of Slug and Snail. There are day-glo death metal medieval outer-space but probably in Bohemia landscape paintings and a prevalence of beautifully etched birds. Their tails trail to form a repeating female face, who finds herself in many of these images. The prints have an amazing feel to them, especially the ones printed in gold ink that are hard to see from a distance, no matter how bling it sounds, and are subtle, like two tones of white interacting with each other. Also, I forgot to mention how creepy the birds are as they are nearly always hanging from a rope around their necks. Such menacing but beautiful imagery!

-Nick