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Durango Days Part III

 Doc Channel correspondent Mark Williams gives us an update on the Durango Film Festival, and some fashion highlights to boot….


 
Boodog and Klunkerz. This pairing of movies strikes right at the spirit of Durango – outdoor fun. Boodog is wry, and it will put off any vegetarians, but it was the funniest short I saw at DIFF. Made in Mongolia, the plot is simple: shoot a marmot, only a male (shoot first, check later, as they say here), cook it and eat. The humor is in the narration. I wouldn’t recommend it for kids, unless the sight of a headless marmot whose innards have been removed and replaced with hot rocks (also good for a massage, we are advised), swinging over an open flame does not bother them. 

 

Klunkerz, a feature-length documentary about the birth of mountain biking, turned out to be one of the jury favorites. Not surprising in a town that held the first mountain world championship and whose very thin phonebook reads like a Who’s Who of cycling. If you missed it, a bunch of kids in Marin County started riding their World War II-era Schwinns down Mt. Tamalpais, north of San Francisco. There was a critical mass of athletic talent, real technical ingenuity and pot-inspired, good clean hippie fun to evolve into a new sport. Almost all of the progenitors of the sport – Gary Fisher, Charlie Kelly, Otis Guy, Joe Breeze, Tom Ritchey, et al – still live for bikes. It was a good enough movie to make me jealous enough to think “Why couldn’t I have been a hippie when it was still cool?”

 

 

 

On a sadder note, Gary Fisher and Charlie Kelly were in the audience at the screening. It’s sad because Fischer has got to the worst-dressed person since Yoko Ono and I had to look at his clothes. Like he cares.

-Mark Williams

 

 

 

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