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Robin and Elias Dechent of Artemisia Moviehouse stand outside Craft Wine and Beer with a friend.
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Your heart races as Dennis Quaid pedals furiously onscreen during the climactic final race in the movie Breaking Away—but not by Casey O’Lear simply because of the tension captured on film—you’ve also been pedaling photos by along on your own bicycle for the past Allison Young 45 minutes. Cyclectric, a recently-developed local organization that focuses on bicycling and renewable energy, will partner with the Artemisia Moviehouse to host a three-day “bike-in” film festival, Aug. 3-5. The festival will project seven films using Cyclectric presents Reno’s only its attendees’ manpower—as Bike-In Film Festival at they pump the pedals of their bikes, Craft Wine and Beer, 22 they turn an electric motor, which Martin St., at 7 p.m., Aug. 3-4, and 3 p.m. Aug. 5. $15 powers the film projector. for one-day pass, $25 for a The films featured in the festival— two-day pass and LED valve all bicycle-themed, of course—range caps, $35 for three-day from The Bicycle Thief, a 1948 Italian pass and LED valve caps. classic, to Pedal, the 2001 documenTickets are available at www.indiegogo.com/ tary chronicle of a New York City cyclectric or at the door. bicycle messenger, and conclude with a night of blockbusters, including the animated Triplets of Belleville and Academy Award-winning Breaking Away.
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Using bicycles, the audience itself will provide the power for an upcoming film festival
Both Artemesia and Cyclectric have aspirations to educate the public and see this festival as an opportunity to spread the word about renewable energy, bicycle culture and, most importantly, the potential power of the human body.
MOVIE TIMES “There is a lot to learn from movies,” said Robin Dechent, president of the Artemisia Moviehouse. “One of the reasons we started Artemisia was to use film to educate the public. Instead of staying with ideas we already know, we work with other organizations to share their issues with a variety of different people.” Artemisia often collaborates with local nonprofits or educational organizations to make more interactive film-viewing experiences for its audiences. The Moviehouse itself was formed in 2011 through the join-
ing of two other nonprofit groups, the Great Basin Film Society and the Artemisia. In the past, Artemisia has worked with groups such as Planned Parenthood to host movies and subsequent panel discussions to expand on and localize the movies’ themes and messages. “We try to make the movies more local by drawing them back to Reno,” Dechent said. “We bring in local experts to emphasize the community aspect. We want to make the events more social, to make the movie-going experience more intellectually stimulating.” Cyclectric, though new to Reno and still in its beginning stages, also plans to immerse itself in Reno culture through collaborations with other local organizations, in addition to appearances at special bike-centric events such as last weekend’s Tour de Nez bicycle race through downtown Reno and the Edible Pedal bike
ride and fundraiser, which will take place Sept. 16. So far, the collaboration between Artemisia and Cyclectric has been a great opportunity for both organizations, according to Dechent. “We wanted to show that we support their ideas very much, especially the manpower aspect,” she said. “People literally power the film festival. We promote manpower and renewable energy, and this is a really good combination of both.” Cyclectric co-founder Skye Laskin cites Reno’s increasing bikeability as well as the emerging arts scene in Midtown as inspiration to pursue the nonprofit organization locally. The city of Reno has recently proven its commitment to a bicycle scene by adding additional bike lanes to some busy streets in the past several years as part of a city project called “road diets,” during which time each road in town comes under review and changes are considered to
