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The Fast Runner

from Bike Race by Imperial Midge

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In addition to his job as curator of film and video at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Cis programmed for the Rotterdam Film Festival. An animated short of mine had been accepted in the 2002 festival, so Cis, Hilde and I travelled together to the Netherlands that year in late January. We arrived at the main festival building, De Doelen, where Cis was well known, and we were invited immediately to the bar. We drank a De Koninck beer or two and, just as I was excusing myself to go to my hotel room to have a nap, Cis said, “Oh, “The Fast Runner” is showing in ten minutes. This is a beautiful film, my friend.” A few minutes later in a large theater the festival director introduced the movie, the auditorium darkened, and a three-hour story in the Inuit language with Dutch subtitles began. The one phrase that I understood in Dutch at this time was something Hilde had taught me on the plane, “Ik heb een kater” (I have a hangover).

(Bike Race – 2010)
Hilde: It’s the first race of the Tour de Force. How are you feeling?
Lance: The wind is strong and I’m a little concerned about the first leg of the race being directly into the wind, but all in all I feel confident.
Hilde: Okay, Eddy?
Eddy: You know, the first race is always touching and feeling, as they say. So we touch and feel and I’m sure he will see more my back than my front.
Hilde: Okay, the wind in the back. Good luck.

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from Bike Race, released December 27, 2019
Reid Kruger - Drums, Keyboards, Vocals
Tom Schroeder - Guitar, Voiceover, Story
Jonathan Zorn - Bass

Additional voices: Hilde De Roover, Cis Bierinckx

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