About:
Empire is a movie about having fun riding your bike New York City. In the tradition of BMX and skate movies, Empire follows New York’s best fixed gear riders and a few special out-of-town guests in and out of traffic all over New York City.Inspired by MASH and Lucas Brunelle, Empire is the first full-length fixed gear action sports feature shot entirely with New York City.Featured riders include Tom Lamarche, WONKA, Dwaine, Yatika Starr Fields, Dagga, John Prolly, Kai Perez and surprise guests.
The DVD has the nearly hour long feature screened to sold out audiences around the world for Bicycle Film Festival in 2010. It also includes a friends section with many surprises, all the internet trailers and over an hour of never-before-seen footage.This beautiful package was designed by Jonah Birns, the man behind the look of the Red Hook Crit. The cover features Empire rider Dwain, and the interior is a stunning shot of a working messenger down Sixth Avenue taken by Christian Thormann. Both the front cover and interior cover images are available in poster format.
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Details:
Premiere Date:
- June 20th, 2010
Release Date:
- November 21st, 2011
Producer(s):
- Luke Stiles
- Christian Thormann
Filmer(s):
- Luke Stiles
- Christian Thormann
- Marc Mayer
- Dan Gingold
- Lauren Keegan
- Sara Kinney
- Lucas Brunelle
- Benny Zenga
- Joey Piazza
Additional Filming:
- n/a
Editor(s):
- Luke Stiles
- Christian Thormann
- Christian Matts
- Jeff Hinton
Camera(s):
- n/a
Runtime:
- 55:26
Starring:
- Dan Chabanov
- John Watson
- Kai
- Crihs
- Yatika
- JT
- Edward Laforte
- Dwain
- Wilis Johnson
- James 007
- Tom La Marche
Featuring:
- Dan S
- Raphael
- Lincoln
- JSN
- Austin
- Kunle
- Burd Phillips
- Massan
- David Shadi-Perez
- Hiromi
- Stone Tone
- Mike Schmitt
Music:
- The Cure – Pictures of you
- Wipers – Window Shop for Love
- Weedeater – Gimme Back My Bullets
- The Smiths – Handsome Devil
- Madvillain, Four Tet – Money Folder (Four Tet Remix)
- Wooden Shjips – For So Long
- Television – Matquee Moon
- Joy Division – Disorder
- Passion Pit – Sleepyhead
- Arcade Fire – Neighborhood #2 (Laika)
- Ramones – Blitzkrieg Bop
- Neil Diamond – Solitary Man
- Santigold – Say Aha
- Crystal Castles – Crimewave
- Blood On The Wall – Dead Edge Of Town
- Bad Brains – Regulator
- Black Flag – Nervous Breakdown
- Iggy Pop – The Passenger
FIXED GEAR ARCHIVE 