The Vancouver bicycle arts celebration, SPOKED! is only a few weeks away!

I’m cracking open the harddrive for a fresh edit of “Sunil Misro”, preping it for upcoming festivals. From Kolkata, India, over the course of five years my good friend Sunil Misro is finding his way from life on the streets to renting a one-room apartment and beginning to raise a family. Watch it in HD here.

I can’t take credit for a lot of this footage, Benny was often running the camera. I shot some, and this is a quick edit I put together. Motorcycles are a beautiful thing.

This is my contribution to last year’s Bicycle Film Festival; a short film constructed mostly of still photos, with a short video about a dorky dad, some worn-out 16mm, and Vancouver’s Critical Mass.

I made this film in the spring of 2008, when I had a passion for hand-proccessing 16mm film. Because of the developing tank I had, I could only proccess 30ft (66 seconds) at a time. When I survived the hours in the darkroom I never wanted to make black and white film by hand again. But a number of weeks later I played it in the Emily Carr theater, and after seeing it I couldn’t wait to do it again. Since then more serious projects have gotten in the way, but I’m planning something interesting for early 2009.

This film, FiveFiftyFive, is my first film. Shot with a Bolex on 16mm and edited on a Steenbeck, I’m glad to know what it takes to manually construct a film. And I don’t mind that I’ll likely never do it again. But I’ll still take shooting on film over video any day I can afford it.