MOVIE • 1999

Reciclo del Biciclo

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Two workers from the same office who travel by different means, flirt while working, departure time and a mechanical failure is the perfect excuse to share a romantic means of transport, the trip is conducive to imagination and love. Bicitekas started pedaling in 1998, "Reciclo del Biciclo" is an audiovisual experiment carried out in 1999 during Naomi Uman's "Handmade Cinema" course at the Image Center. Their goal was to celebrate the turn of the century and the renaissance of urban cycling as an efficient means of transportation. The original format is 16 mm film, one part was scratched and drawn frame by frame, another was filmed with a Bolex camera and revealed manually in the sun: "pizcacha" or recycled film and a photocopy of a magazine on film intervened with letraset were also added.