ÎαÏÎ¬Î»Î¿Î³Î¿Ï Street Cinema - ΦεÏÏιβάλ ÎινημαÏογÏάÏÎ¿Ï ÎεÏÏαλονίκηÏ
ÎαÏÎ¬Î»Î¿Î³Î¿Ï Street Cinema - ΦεÏÏιβάλ ÎινημαÏογÏάÏÎ¿Ï ÎεÏÏαλονίκηÏ
ÎαÏÎ¬Î»Î¿Î³Î¿Ï Street Cinema - ΦεÏÏιβάλ ÎινημαÏογÏάÏÎ¿Ï ÎεÏÏαλονίκηÏ
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| 62 Wheel. Reel. The similarity between the bicycle wheel and<br />
BICYCLEOGRAPHY<br />
b i k e r e s p e c t<br />
the film reel does not lie in design alone. Their relationship<br />
proves to be a source of inspiration for the members of BikeRespect,<br />
who wheel into the city on their 50 bikes, laden<br />
with sounds and images.<br />
‘‘It was a regular afternoon in the centre of Thessaloniki, and I<br />
was walking amongst strangers, trying to finish up in time some<br />
of the tasks that pop up every day and need to be taken care<br />
of. Coming out along with the continuous grey sound of car and<br />
motorcycle engines I also heard notes, notes that were lively,<br />
slow, intense, calm, notes from a violin, notes from drums…<br />
and then I also heard words, words coming out of crystalline<br />
voices, everyday voices, female voices, male voices, voices of<br />
anger, laughter… notes and words from films… And then I saw<br />
colours… Yellow, red, orange, black, blue, green, white perfectly<br />
round open umbrellas. Umbrellas that were joyous, optimistic,<br />
umbrellas that were on colourful bicycles…And I remembered<br />
the bicycle lane I’d first seen a couple of days before, and I<br />
thought how noiseless the bicycle is, and how much it reminded<br />
me of my buried childishness, taking me back on a trip to carefree<br />
times. I saw a lot of bicyclists together, with all of those<br />
umbrellas and film soundtracks…All of these together were so<br />
similar, with the bicycles and the umbrellas, but at the same<br />
time so different, as they were women, men, children, young<br />
people, people who were middle-aged, advanced in years, all<br />
of them were together…so as to remind me of scenes, images,<br />
snapshots in which a bicycle or an umbrella is the protagonist,<br />
in its very own big or small still. And I felt myself breathing-in an<br />
air that was different; something’s happening out there, something<br />
different is happening in the city.”