por·no·gra·phy of the bi·cy·cle:

1. short films depicting things both erotic and ridiculous, intended to make you laugh uncomfortably, squirm in your seat, and adjust your pants;

2. the depiction of acts with and on bicycles, intended to provoke, titillate and arouse;
3. a one-of-a-kind film event coming to your city.
   

Attention Arts & Life & Culture Editors:

Don't get your knickers in a twist!

1146 Cornwall Ave

On Thursday, September 18^th 2008, Bike Porn 2: Bikexploitation will be playing for one night only at the Pickford Cinema in Bellingham. The 90-minute showing will consist of many short films from a variety of artists across North America on the theme of "bike exploitation."  The movies range from the contemplative to the inventive, to the fully demonstrative.

"Pornography is difficult thing to define," says bicycle pornographer, Reverend Phil. "Often we use a community standard to decide what is obscene as opposed to just erotic. People often say, 'I know pornography when I see it.' I feel pornography is the visceral reaction we get from something that is so graphic that we must turn away, or is so graphic that we cannot turn away."

The various artists, some operating under pseudonyms, take us though a range of videos -- most of which are not available anywhere else. No DVDs of the work are available for sale; a select few works are online. This is your only chance to see Bike Porn 2: Bikexploitation in Bellingham.

Please be advised of adult content: 18 and over only, please.

The Pornography of the Bicycle was shown in June as part of Portland’s Underground Film Festival (PUFF). Only half of the 500 people who showed up were able to get into the Clinton Street Theater. Since then The Pornography of the Bicycle has received rave reviews selling out shows in San Francisco, Seattle, New York, Denver, Chicago among others. The Cascadian Bikexploitation tour will stop in these cities:

• 9/18 Bellingham
  
• 9/20 Seattle
  
• 9/22 Olympia
• 10/2 Portland

Watch the trailer at www.bikesmut.com.

To arrange an interview, contact

Reverend Phil at

revphil@gmail.com