Short Title: Trashionistas

Full Title with Description:
“Trashionistas – Making a Fashion Statement with Used Bike Parts and Other Found Objects”

Helen Winter used to be a professional metal-smith, until… “It really started to get to me. I would be working with these materials and think, what did it take to get this out of the Earth?” Helen hosted a trashionistas session during Edmonton Bike Month 2008, and many like-minded folks came out to play.

Edmonton’s Harcourt House gallery provided the venue, and our own Wendy McNeill adds her gorgeously haunting music to this video exploration of the relationship between bikes, culture and ecology.

Links:
Harcourt House Gallery
Wendy McNeill
Bike Month in Edmonton
Edmonton Bicycle Commuters Society
Metro Cinema Society
RBCC  

Length: (3:16) 3.5 mins

Date Produced: June 2000 

Production Company: RBCC

Produced in partnership with:
Helen Winter
Harcourt House Gallery
Edmonton’s Bike Month Coalition 

Additional funding from:
Edmonton Bicycle Commuters Society

Aired/Screened/Webcast:
Bike Movie Mondays at Metro Cinema, June 2008
Uploaded to YouTube, June 2008 

Available on DVD?
pending

Credits:
Executive Producer for RBCC: Barb Allard
Written & Directed: Kyle Schneider, Barb Allard
Research & Writing Assistance: Kevin Burdett
Cinematography & DOP: Kevin Burdett
Editor: Kevin Burdett
Original Music: Wendy McNeill, Robin Hunter, Lane Arndt, Jason Kodie, Izumi Kuribayashi 

Edmonton Cyclists and Trashionistas (in order of appearance):
Karly Coleman
Helen Winter
Kaylee Byers
Anna Vesalia
Caroline Stokes
Laura Ayre
Kellen Westman
Michael Halliwell
Shauna Halliwell
Kim McCall 

Tags:
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