BIKES VS. CARS: Biketivism Documentary w. Trailer and Director
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BIKES VS. CARS documentary director Fredrik Gertten shares the trailer and clips from his biketivism documentary that explores the true costs of an auto-reliant society. With personal cars using up precious resources, real estate, and contributing to the environmental destruction of the Earth, Gertten’s film goes beyond the temporary fix of green cars and gives larger voice to activists that are encouraging people to switch to bicycles. From Sao Paolo, to Los Angeles, and all around the world, look at the costs and cures for automobile dependence in this interview filmed at the 2015 SXSW premiere of the film, on BYOD hosted by Ondi Timoner. FILM & GUEST INFO: BIKES VS. CARS - Director, Fredrik Gertten The bicycle, an amazing tool for change. Activists and cities all over the world are moving towards a new system. But will the economic powers allow it? Bikes vs Cars, a new film project from BANANAS!* and Big Boys Gone Bananas!* director Fredrik Gertten, looks into and investigates the daily global drama in traffic around the world. Fredrik Gertten, the director of Bikes vs Cars is a Swedish award winning director and journalist. His latest works BIG BOYS GONE BANANAS!* (2012) and BANANAS!* (2009) have met an audience in over 80 countries including leading festivals as Sundance, Berlinale, Hot Docs, Toronto, IDFA, Amsterdam, Melbourne IFF, Sao Paulo IFF, Sheffield. In Sweden the sale of FairTrade bananas more than doubled after the release of the films. In 1994 Fredrik founded the production company WG Film. Before he worked as a foreign correspondent and columnist for radio, TV and press in Africa, Latin America, Asia and around Europe. Today he combines filmmaking with a role as a creative producer on WG Film - famous for local stories with a global understanding, with several films catching the identity and transformation of his hometown. ADD’L LINKS: http://www.bikes-vs-cars.com/ https://www.facebook.com/pages/BIKES-vs-CARS/471560182885475 https://twitter.com/bikes_vs_cars https://twitter.com/FredrikGertten http://thelip.tv/show/byod-bring-your-own-doc/ http://thelip.tv/ BYOD Full Episodes Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyl_j7ziZeY&list=PLjk3H0GXhhGdZbrANmO6kYPy8IQC0GiN_&index=1 BYOD Short Clips Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEUqFtPETwc&index=1&list=PLjk3H0GXhhGeu2DCf6Ouo7hTsA5QB2MAL http://www.youtube.com/theliptv https://www.facebook.com/BYODOC?directed_target_id=0 https://www.facebook.com/thelip.tv?ref=hl EPISODE BREAKDOWN: 00:01 Welcoming Fredrik Gertten, director of Bikes vs. Cars. 01:01 From BANANAS! to BIG BOYS GONE BANANAS!, to BIKES VS.CARS. 01:40 Malmö, Sweden--a city of bicycles. 02:50 Biketivism and keeping our feet on the grass. 04:45 BIKES VS. CARS, Clip: Housing cars. 05:54 How cars affect cities, and how bikes beautify urban areas. 08:27 BIKES VS. CARS, Clip: Rush Hour in Sao Paolo. 10:18 The true consumption of cars. 12:10 Electric bikes. 13:20 Bringing drama to ecological activism & the truly eco-friendly screening. 16:40 Dangers for bike riders and the bike movement. 19:48 Distributing the movie, and crowd sourced screenings. 21:06 BIKES VS. CARS, Trailer.
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we need more bike lanes in our planet.car industries are destroying.our atmosphere with all that pollution that car's creating
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I would like to see more bicycles in city and I wouldn't mind to bike my self to work in summer. But I wonder how would that impact economics if much greater % of people would stop driving cars and wouldn't pay taxes about there cars and would switch to bicycles. Would that result in increase taxation for those who still drive? Or that would require additional taxation on other things to keep current money income.
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I own a Bad Boy $1300 bike but I also drive. When one day somebody shows me how to drop the kids off at work and then race to the office on time on a bike I'd start commuting with one. Then show me how to meet with 2 to 3 clients per day. Keep in mind that I live in the suburbs because most of us can't afford the $1M house in the city or $700k 3-bedroom condo in the city.
It's annoying how people put down the car yet don't appreciate how it's a necessary tool for most of us to get around in. once the kids are gone and I'm retired I'll ride everywhere. -
Great Stuff! Bikes can be a big part of the solution for improving our quality of life (especially in dirty, congested and unsafe urban areas), but only if we are willing to address the root cause of so many of our social and environmental challenges- overpopulation. Simply put, there are too many of us; we consume too many resources, we occupy too much space and we generate too much waste. There can be no technological fix to this problem. Developing elegantly simple and extremely practical technology, like the bicycle, is essential, but unless we deal with our hyper-reproductivity, our fate is as good as sealed. Fortunately, human beings are capable of moving on several fronts simultaneously. "Big Green", having lost the courage and intellectual integrity needed for addressing the most pressing aspect of our predicament, has proven itself over-stuffed and ossified. No matter. As "Bikes vs. Cars" showcases, there are plenty of smart, independent-minded people interested in challenging the status quo on a variety of levels.
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Love what he's doing.
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14:25... interview train wreck! Gorilla~stomping the interesting take he offers... with the less interesting question you're fixated upon!
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I like cars and comfort in transportation and if somebody wants to to exercise, might as well buy a treadmill and exercise at home without inhaling poisonous gases . The future I would like to see are either smaller cities with no more than 500.000 people or perhaps cities with fewer cars but with surface trains among green lawns, all run by computers so one could know exactly how much time it takes to go from one point to another, while public electric cars would be there to go for lesser distances and maybe bikes for those who are of athletic constitution.Maybe we could even have lanes for horses.Why not?
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Our cities have a man made development thinking in cars due to USA external policy and influences, that stated that each citizen should have a car to promote economic growth and to help with the petrodollar system.
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I really want to watch this documentary. I`m also a Brazilian cyclist and am very curious to watch this. Is there anyway to buy or stream the film?
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I can't imagine the elderly and the sick riding bikes. What they need is more subways and not bikes.
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where can i find the full documentary ?
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It's not about bikes versus cars, it's about intelligent people versus selfish people.
Because an intelligent person would not use something that create a problem for themselves or other people, only somebody that selfish would do such a thing.
Where I live there are singletrack country lanes, yet you have selfish people using cars as big as range Rovers to travel down a singletrack roads, causing no end of problems for the farmers, also horse riders and cyclist, ( which I don't feel sorry for, only the horses they ride, because most of these horse riders and cyclists are car drivers), all because of their selfish ways.
I have heard horse riders and cyclists complain about car drivers, yet both drive cars themselves down these lanes, I ride a motorbike and I am a cyclist, I have no car, I adopt to the environment I'm living in, so when I moan I have a right to.
Over 95% of our wildlife is killed by the car, all the discarded fast-food cartons, drinking cans, plastic bags, bottles, that scatter across our countryside, are discarded from the car by there selfish occupants, bringing more danger to the wildlife, they travel down these singletrack lanes at ridiculous speeds around blind corners, they are totally irresponsible people.
If they wish to live in the countryside, then choose the appropriate viable form of personal transport for getting yourself about down these singletrack lanes, and a car is not the type of vehicle to be using, but these people are so selfish and so arrogant and self centred, they want to live in the countryside, but don't want to change there selfish behaviour or their mode of transport, and of course they cause no end of problems for themselves and everybody else.
But they don't care, as long as they can carry on being selfish and using this selfish form of transport, and expect everybody including the tractors, to get out of their way.
The government should be doing something about it, but they are not, in fact they encourage car ownership, because who are the government, they are car drivers, selfish people themselves, and who votes them in, the majority of society who are car drivers, so it obvious why the world is in the state it is in, when you have selfish people voting in selfish people to govern them, it's no wonder you are infested with problems you cannot solve.
Selfish people cannot face the truth, because they are too selfish, and don't want to change there selfish ways.
But the bottom line is, there's too many people on this planet, because congestion on your roads is a reflection of the congestion in your cities and country and world, for it is people that drive cars causing congestion, so it's not congestion created by cars it's the amount of people that is causing the congestion, because if you put everybody on pushbikes you would still have cyclist congestion, if everybody went on public transport it still have congestion, even if you walked you would have pedestrian congestion, because the bottom line is there is too many people, and nobody can talk about it, that's where your problem lies, and it is only going to get worse the more you carry on endlessly, mindlessly, irresponsibly multiplying. -
Where can I buy or stream this documentary, legally talking. I will appreciate any help
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Ivan Illich stated that you never really go faster than bicycle speed - by the time you work the hours to pay for the extra speed whether it's a train, plane, or Space Shuttle, you never really go faster than about 15 or 20 mph.
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Self driving car is next evolution. The gran majority of time you car is doing nothing. We don't need everyone to own a car. Let them drive themselves like a big fleet of taxis and we can reduce the amount of car and accidents as well as recovering the lost spaces in heavy populated cities, and the waist of time driving. Other gain is by using electric power self driving cars will help reduce pollution by giving you cleaner air in the city as well as less noise.
Good thing is going to happen sooner that later. -
I hope this film goes on netflix so i can be inspired by its story.
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If you want to visit a very bike-friendly city, go to Eugene, Oregon.
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