RACING TOWARDS RED HOOK is one of the highlights of the Bicycle Film Festival
Spencer Brownstone, 3 Wooster St. at Canal St.
Anthology Film Archives, 32 Second Ave. at Second St.
June 23-26
Tickets: $10 per film, Sunday pass $20 (all four programs), festival pass $40 (all programs)
www.bicyclefilmfestival.com
While New Yorkers continue their ever-present debate over the viability of bicycles and bike lanes in Manhattan, the Bicycle Film Festival rolled into town last night with a kickoff party at Santos Party House, and the festivities continue tonight with the opening of the Joyride Art Show at Spencer Brownstone, featuring bike-related imagery from such artists as Albert Maysles, Cheryl Dunn, Edwin De La Rosa, Jake Klotz, Leo Fitzpatrick, Mimi Gross, Mint and Serf, and Ryan Humphrey, followed by an after-party at Lit Lounge with Frances Rose, Unsolved Mysteries, Imaginary Friends, and DJs Dirtyfinger, Ramblinworker, and Joshua Wildman & Fancy. Screenings get under way Friday night at Anthology Film Archives, three days of film and video that involve bicycles, from Rob Luehrs’s one-minute commercial, Crazy About You, to Richard Press’s highly praised Bill Cunningham New York, from Lori Samsel’s stop-motion animated Snack Track, made with Japanese rice crackers, to Ben Lenzner’s The Backwards Rider, from Jessica Scott & Hyde Harper’s Racing Towards Red Hook, about a brakes-free race, to Spike Jonze’s Mark on Allen, in which skateboarder Mark Gonzales tries a series of tricks on Allen St. Friday night’s Program 2 will include a live performance by Richard Barone, with background video by Jonas Mekas. And on Saturday, the BFF Street Party will feature special activities and vendors, a BMX Jam, and more.