There's a Flower in My Pedal (2005)

Directed by

Andrea Dorfman

Country

Canada

Runtime

4 min

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A woman confronts her fears and insecurities by blending live action with collage animation. The film is inspired by a memory of the director's mother who stopped riding her bicycle after a small fall.

poeticgentlecontemplativehopefulintimatereflectivewhimsical

What happens

There's a Flower in My Pedal is a Canadian short film, directed by Andrea Dorfman and released in 2005. Blending live action and animation in a collage style, the film is a poetic meditation on facing up to fear and insecurity, inspired in part by a childhood memory of her mother never riding her beloved bicycle again in her lifetime after sustaining a minor injury from falling off of it. The film premiered at the 2005 Toronto International Film Festival, where it received an honorable mention from the jury for the Toronto International Film Festival Award for Best Canadian Short Film. In 2023, the film was also awarded the Grand Jury Prize at the International Cycling Film Festival, Herne, Germany. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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