What can we learn from bike messenger alleycats? Playground. Now on YouTube.
Playground looks at how alleycats push back against enclosed city space, and change the ideas of dominance and exploitation. Ultimately: how we truly reclaim the streets as our own. Fun. Friction. Conflict. They’re the ultimate emancipation for the bike messenger who spends their life so intimately tied to the enclosed streets of the city. Rejecting the ideas of enclosure. Creating the ultimate playground.
Playground is made together with Norman Duncan
@through_everything_messengers , a PhD researcher and bike messenger focusing on reclaiming the “right to the city” through urban organisation in both work and leisure, with a focus on alleycats.
Thank you to contributors:
@hush__er &
@the_analogue_syndicate
@franncogrd
@matheus_tannus
@lucasbrunelle
@358narada
@felix_le_chat_presse
@trackloscotia
@maxmudroom
@corbaciofff
@ottovommob
Researcher & Script: Norman Duncan
@through_everything_messengers
Narrator: Grace Kavanagh
@graceelesss
Editor: Claire Tayler
@de.tour
Narration Recording & Mastering: Henry Dabrowski
German Subtitles: Josh Meissner
@joshm.de & Tine Heni
Proofing: Natasha Meissner
@natashalee.m & Claire Fyson
@clairefys
With thanks to: Leisure Studies Association, Freilauf
@freilaufcamp , CYCLOCAMP Zagreb, and Bike Messenger Film Festival
@bmff.109
Thank you to all the messengers who made this possible, past and present.
