Bike Thief
2023 · 10m · USA
Directed by Yvette Lu, Leanne Velednitsky
Genres: comedy
A young woman scours Los Angeles for her stolen bike. The search becomes a lo-fi meditation on ownership, attachment, and how dumb cities make you.
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Naming a small lo-fi comedy Bike Thief is either a bluff or a flex. Either way, I want to see the bike.
Lu and Velednitsky thread animated inserts into an LA lo-fi odyssey — De Sica rewritten as a stoner errand is a sturdier joke than it should be. Charming without straining.
Animated inserts threaded into a live-action LA bike-search odyssey — lo-fi format-mixing where the animation carries the affect. The premise is small but the format-shift is the craft.